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...since the Wallis Warfield affair had elite London drawing rooms echoed to such a coo of deliciously subdued conversation. "My dear-not the King of the Greeks!" "And just after he had won the plebiscite!" "How awful for the Foreign Office!" "And for the poor dear Hellenes!" "Hasn't he grown children, or something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: King's Mistress | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...world's scientists had given it to the "western world" to keep in sacred trust. Most scientists disagreed with her. Later, in a bit of atomic whimsy, Columnist Thompson wrote: "Scene: A ward in Bellevue. A screaming bearded gentleman is being hustled into a straitjacket. Guard: 'Completely coo-coo. Found him trying to board a ship. Yelled he was going to the Big Three meeting to save the world. Screamed he represented all the people on earth. The nut said he had a teeny-weeny atomic bomb and knew exactly where to drop it. Said he was commissioned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Fate Closing In | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...million repressed U.S. small-town men & women. Even readers who detested Carol Kennicott as much as her Gopher Prairie neighbors did were attracted by her husband, solid, plodding long-suffering Dr. Will Kennicott. Main Street was a shriek against the standardized smugness of U.S. life and a coo of satisfaction that it was so solidly smug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laureate of the Boobolsie | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...room, the mother gets used to it while it is still in a very sleepy phase. She can feed it whenever it feels hungry-sometimes eleven times a day. Mother and baby are thus well started on breast feeding. Such babies soon adopt a fairly regular schedule. Meanwhile they coo a good deal and suck their fingers very little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Discovery | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Dark, undapper Frederick Robert Kuh (pronounced coo) last week could stick another large feather in his old beret. As he pedaled his creaky bicycle down to London's Whitehall he could expand his slight chest over the almost unanimous judgment of his colleagues: Freddie Kuh is the best U.S. foreign correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Kuh's Coups | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

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