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...theaters, whooped the young rebels on. But when, after some 20 years of skirmishes and pitched battle, Jake & Lee* won their war, many producers began to wonder if they had not swapped one tyranny for another. "Instead of Klaw & Erlanger," gagged one, "we've now got tooth & claw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Hogging the Act? | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

Little Finland has been a burr in a bear's paw. The bear has alternately gone after it with tooth & claw, licked it with honeyed tongue. Before last year's elections, Russia offered the Finns a friendship pact, reduced their reparations debt. The maneuver failed. The Finns trotted off to the polls, returned even fewer Communists to the Diet than they had had before. Last week, on the eve of Finland's presidential election, the bear bared his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Burr | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

Herself celebrated for claw-sharp quotes, Dorothy surprised the cast with her gentleness. With Evans, she fled the theater between acts to avoid stares by the curious, acknowledged compliments with a mild "Bless you." Said one actress: "She's sweet. She's even shy. She's a love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Dallas | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

When the blowup comes, the screaming victim tries to claw his way up the walls, or beats bloody knuckles against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Ralph Budd had come to Aurora, the "Q's" birthplace, to celebrate the road's first 100 years. He donned a claw hammer coat and stovepipe hat, glued on a black mustache, and helped re-enact the granting of the Q's 1849 charter for its first twelve miles of track. But Budd, whose 10,600-mile railroad system is now the U.S.'s fourth longest,* had his eye, as usual, on the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Hundred Years | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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