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After calls on President Truman, acting Secretary of State Acheson, and UNRRA Director LaGuardia, nattily dressed Roxas held a press conference at Blair-Lee House. Said he, vigorously exhaling cigaret smoke through his nostrils: "Collaboration is no longer a political issue in the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Selling Job | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Grand, said I, grand, I'll tell the boss as soon as he wakes up. ... I tiptoed down the cinder path to Ike's circus wagon to see if he was asleep and saw him silhouetted in bed behind a Western. Ike grinned as he lit a cigaret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backstage with Butcher | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Free, she lighted a cigaret, stared into the distance, fingered a half pound of religious medals and denied the whole business. "I am not a bruja [witch]," said she. By week's end many of her clients disappointedly agreed: the district attorney had not yet suffered from cramps, colic, or cast in the eye, had apparently felt no overpowering urge to eat glass or stick his head into an airplane propeller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Broomless Bruja | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...editors gave him a big hand. Facile Ilya Ehrenburg, easily the star of the show, had his hosts goggle-eyed with admiration for the dexterous way he handled himself. Roundheaded General Galaktionov popped up for occasional slow, emphatic replies; dapper Author-Playwright Simonov sat in a smoldering haze of cigaret smoke and let his elders do the talking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mission to Washington | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...North Carolina, where tobacco talks, Trinity [Methodist] College changed its name to Duke University for $1,000,000 a year of the late James B. Duke's money. Last week 112-year-old Wake Forest [Baptist] College agreed to walk no miles for some Camel cigaret money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: 110-Mile Walk | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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