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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Early in my tour here a Mexican patiently explained to me that whenever I made an appointment for eleven o'clock in the morning, I must assume one of two things: either the Mexican who gave me the appointment is a proud, sensitive soul who is thinking, 'why...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Communists are busily shaping each of the six satellite countries to a set Marxist pattern as fast as the national character will allow. Each is getting what Americans call "the works" and Soviets more solemnly call vypolnenye plana, "plan fulfillment."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Plan Fulfillment | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

The challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Resplendent | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Experience. Letter from Grosvenor Square also throws a good deal of light on the obscurities of Winant's character and life. When he left college (Princeton 1913), he studied with General Arthur L. Conger, afterwards head of G-2 under Pershing. General Conger was one of the greatest U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ambassador's Report | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

To name "the sweetest" eleven he has ever coached, Harlow is obliged to combine his teams of 1937 which beat an undefeated Yale 13-6, and the 1941 squad, "dear to my heart because of adversity." But despite some of the drudge character of football today, Harlow is quick to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 11/22/1947 | See Source »

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