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Doctors' Dilemma. In Colorado, at Buckley Field Station Hospital, Staff Sergeant Othal E. Chronic was down with chronic malaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...TIME never dreamed of suggesting that Reuben suffers from chronic hysteria, but thinks his voice is more effective in the lower register...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 3, 1946 | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Chronic work-shys at once cleared out of the capital. Even when some crept back, the average cop hardly broke a leg to nab a candidate. Most Uruguayans had forgotten all about the scheme when last week Montevideo's alert El Diario turned up the fact that their hobo college, with a staff of 46, had shrunk to six scholars. Hurriedly the police began beating the boondocks for prospective pupils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: URUGUAY: Bums' School | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...prospect of a Big Power conference no longer excited the naive hope and fear which would have attended it a year ago. It was unlikely that next week's Paris meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers would greatly ease or greatly aggravate the chronic competition between Russia and the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Slow Peace | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...outraged his father, a prosperous Manhattan hatter, by insisting on songwriting ("Why didn't you become a bootlegger and be done with it?"), turned out the suave scores of No, No, Nanette* and Flying Down to Rio before chronic illness blighted his career at full bloom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

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