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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: It's a Long Time between Grits | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...secretary to France's diplomatic corps in China. The hater of literary exoticism loved Peiping, not because it was exotic, but because it was "beyond time, not of it." He rented a temple in the hills. When the French Minister needed Leger he had to send a special courier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Double Life | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Solid Proposition. In Sedro-Woolley, Wash., J. E. Minster advertised in the Courier-Times: "FOR SALE-George, our pig. . . . Don't know what he weighs, but I can only lift one end of him at a time. . . . He sits down to meals. By mistake he has been fed laying mash and commercial fertilizer and once Portland cement. All seem to agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

Little Orphan Annie is an ugly but likable little carrottop who in her 19-year comic-strip existence has adventured into and out of many a paper-&-ink jam. Last week she was in a real one. The Roosevelt loyalists of the Louisville Courier-Journal management tossed her bodily out of their paper. Angrily but regretfully they had concluded that popular Annie had been made into a vehicle of Republican propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moppet in Politics | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...suspicions roused by continuity like this, Courier-Journal Publisher Mark Ethridge peeked at advance Annie proofs, found his suspicion justified. Promptly he took Annie out of the Journal's roster of funnies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Moppet in Politics | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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