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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since Pakistan's creation last August, the world has heard little of its creator, Mohamed Ali Jinnah. After a month of illness in Lahore, Jinnah recently returned to Karachi, gaunter than ever. From there last week came reports of Jinnah's life as Governor General of what he proudly calls "the fifth largest nation in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Life on a Throne | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

France Forever. In Paris, the glove industry announced the creation of a two-handed glove, designed for holding hands in chilly movie houses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...Novelists. Far more ingratiating as a creation of the U.S. past was A. B. Guthrie's The Big Sky. It had its faults of structure, but its characters-Indian scouts and hunters in the early West-were soundly imagined and pungent as hickory smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...year-old Christian civilization and the new totalitarian systems which, in the name of social progress, contended for the allegiance of man's secular mind. The promise of the new ideas was as old as that serpentine whisper heard in the dawn of the Creation: "You shall become as gods"-for the first traitor was the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...poet began his talk by discussing the here concept in many of its different forms. "Quixote," he concluded, "lives in his own right beyond the words of Cervantes, continuing to classic new stories within the imagination of the reader. Like Little Abner, he outlives the imagination of his creation. He makes the Christian tradition immortal in himself as no strictly moral fictional character could...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Auden Delivers Poet's Views of Don Quixote | 12/5/1947 | See Source »

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