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...employee of his Chicago Tribune-Daily News syndicate, had long promised to open his eyes if he would visit the gilded city. On his one trip to Hollywood, 15 years ago, it had rained constantly and he had since thought of the town, if at all, as a damp offshoot of the Land of Oz. But he still liked to have his eyes opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: The Colonel among the Angels | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...breeze was blowing in a little stronger now, damp from the water under the Anderson Bridge. "Time for birds on the wing and crew men on the slides," he remembered. And gesturing to the waitress for two more bottles and a couple of hot pastromis, he made a mental note to get his seersuckers out of the moth balls before the end of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

...group of Senators and Representatives, summoned by the President, left Capitol Hill one morning last week and went to the White House. The winter chill hung damp over Pennsylvania Avenue. Harry Truman met them in the Executive Office, where he was flanked by Secretary of State George Marshall, Under Secretary Dean Acheson and Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy. This was the first stirring of the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Rustle of History | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...snaps the picture, pulls the film out of the camera, tears it off against a built-in knife edge. A sheet of special paper comes plastered against the face of the film. After 50 seconds it can be peeled away: a finished positive print, only faintly damp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick Birdie | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

Marshall shook hands all around, chatted a bit, thanked T.V. for his basket of Formosan shaddock and pomelo (akin to grapefruit), urged everyone not to wait in the chill damp outdoors. For a few moments he stood alone by the ramp; he seemed a trifle impatient because the Gimo and Madame were late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Goodbye | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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