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...Amenities. In Vancouver, B.C., a stickup man entered Glen Holm's cigar-store and 1) took $63 from the cash register, 2) ordered a package of gum, 3) paid for it with a $2 bill, 4) got his change and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects slow body processes like cell growth. He put his microvoltmeter inside a black plastic cabinet about the size of a cigar box. Then he attached two ordinary electrodes made from medicine droppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Black Box | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Sitting at his cluttered desk in the cluttered expanse of the Star's city room, Roberts got General Eisenhower on the telephone in Washington. How did Ike feel about it now? Would he take a Democratic nomination? Roberts grinned around his cigar as the wire crackled with a string of cuss words. The General was angry. Hadn't he given his word? What kind of a fellow did they think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: K. C.'s Sun | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Satan's Tool | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Miracles were being reported all over Italy. Despite discouragement by Church authorities, 60,000 pilgrims poured into Assisi to be cured by the "breathing" Madonna atop the cathedral. Communists, scenting propaganda, countered with reports of another miracle: a statue of Garibaldi had dismounted from its horse, smoked a cigar and inquired about Vatican scandals. In Rome, the weather was fitful. Said one overcoated man: "It seems warm when the sun is up, but as soon as you walk into the shade the cold air catches you like a knife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: Europe in the Spring | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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