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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press has tended to discount its own validity, and, as a result, the morale of its readers is low. They have been fed on too constant a diet of superlatives and excitements. . . . From public slogans and party platforms, shrill editorials and spiced-up news, to the insistent din and pretense of advertising, the reader . . . comes to believe that the careers of newsmen depend on the illicit transformation of narrative into melodrama. . . . He imagines propaganda both where it is and where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Free & Uneasy | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

Strong Friend. For Fernandes the Rio conference will be chiefly significant for what it contributes to Pan-Americanism. Said he recently: "Under the impact of war, Pan-Americanism has developed from an association with strictly economic and cultural ends to an institution with political activity . . . imposing upon us a constant watchfulness and a wider understanding. The first factor of success in this new task is the friendship we must keep on cultivating zealously with the sister republics . . . and with the U.S., that proven friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Gaunt Champion | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

Married. Josef Cyrankiewicz, 36, bullet-headed, pro-Communist Polish Premier; and blonde, husky-voiced Nina Andrycz, thirtyish, who made her first big hit in The Constant Nymph and is now Warsaw's top leading lady; he for the second time, she for the first; in Warsaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 4, 1947 | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...view of the almost constant Republican violations [of the Dutch-Indonesian truce]," said the Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook, "The Netherlands Government cannot further be bound by the truce and agreement, and retake their freedom of action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Recolonialization? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...astute business woman, founder and manager of the NBC Artists' Bureau, who had gone to California to retire. Said Hedda: "I want to get on that air." "In half an hour," says Dema, "she told me more about Hollywood than I could learn in two years of constant study." Dema decided to become Hedda's manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Gossipist | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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