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...stentor, Ebbets Field Hilda, whose loon-like cries are supposed to carry to the Mississippi. Patiently, almost demurely, he recalled: "As we say in baseball, he had a tremendously loud voice." On June 9, the night of the alleged beating, said Durocher, softly, Christian had ridden the Dodger pitcher, Curt Davis, into a lather:* "Davis is an elderly gentleman in the vicinity of 42 today." Durocher explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Brooklyn Justice | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...curt statement, the Embassy charged that attempts had been made "to cast a shadow and to discredit" members of its diplomatic staff. Cried the Embassy: "The sources of this slanderous information are the false statements of the former employe . . . Gouzenko, who has stolen money from the Embassy and who is indictable for the committed crime in case of his return to the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Not a Plugged Nickel? | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...knew even better than the American Legion's pompous John Stelle, who trumpeted a blast of criticism at him, that there were delays in filing claims, that medical records were not on hand, that much of his personnel was incompetent. He shut Stelle up with a curt report outlining shortcomings of which even Stelle was not aware. He doggedly applied himself to his business, building an organization which he hopes can do the job. In his flat Missouri twang, he said briefly: "I'm not worried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VETERANS: Old Soldiers' Soldier | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko's experiments are reported without exact data and his interpretations are deduced from vague, amateurish concepts. . . . Genetics is a progressive science, welcoming expert criticism, but Lysenko's is disappointing. CURT STERN Professor of Experimental Zoology University of Rochester Rochester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...reporter asked one of them for General Shtykov's first name. He was rebuffed, with a curt: "That is classified information" (i.e., a military secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Russians Came | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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