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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ballots. To old families in the mansions along Charleston's historic Battery, as to most South Carolinians across the state, this was sacrilege. But proud Charleston spent its bitterness on the cause, rather than the effect of this enormous social change. It charged it all up to cold-eyed, 68-year-old Federal Judge J. Waties Waring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH CAROLINA: The Man They Love to Hate | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Stylist. In Queens, N.Y., Marie Flynn was still looking for the door-to-door beautician who had offered her a free demonstration, then cut off most of her hair, smeared her head with cold cream, and disappeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...first was the period of phony collaboration. It was ushered in by the Potsdam conference where Harry Truman played a minuet on the piano while the Russians (politically) danced a hobnailed kazachok over Europe's face. After some two years of that, the Truman Doctrine ushered in the Cold War, a period of mobilization during which the West pulled back from direct contact with Russia, while organizing (under ERP) its joint defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Gong for the Third Round | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Discus in the Rain. The second day dawned cold and rainy. Mathias won his heat of the 110-meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Boy | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...only heavy who throws his weight around to any effect is the Sundance Kid (Robert Ryan, a thoroughly hissable villain). He kills a good Indian in cold blood, murders a reformed she-bandit named Cheyenne (Anne Jeffreys) when he can't persuade her to switch back into banditry, and finally meets his match in a protracted barefisted bout with the U.S. marshal (Randolph Scott) after shooting it out unsuccessfully in a lonely building. The locale: the boom town of Guthrie, and the ghost town of Braxton, just before & after the 1889 land rush into Oklahoma Territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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