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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make sure that "these people" do try to drive this car, and to promote in them a desire to drive it, with or without accidents . . . And if we are going to make them accept democracy, we will have to "coerce" them to accept it, Hitler fashion, for to date they laugh at our methods of presentation...
...respectable London hotel to keep an appointment with dapper, 39-year-old John George Haigh. She was never seen again. Three days later, Haigh himself went to the police station and reported the disappearance. The wealthy 6g-year-old widow, he said, had never shown up for the date...
Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page four in the Spring Golf Schedule in today's paper, on THE SAME DATE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Edward F. Burke...
...salted with Communists. The committee was headed by Harvard Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long had red stars in his eyes. Besides such unsurprising names as Henry A. Wallace and Charles Chaplin, the roster included Physicist Albert Einstein, Novelist Thomas Mann. What was really surprising at this late date was that such supposedly well-informed people as Vassar President Sarah Gibson Blanding and Columbia Philosopher Irwin Edman had agreed to sponsor the Communists' show and ducked out only at the last minute...
Trippers who island-hopped through the turquoise Caribbean were met at San Juan by a waiter with trays of Daiquiris. At Trinidad, they heard the calypso singers and the throbbing steel bands, and found everything up-to-date: the airport was an awkward 17 miles from Port of Spain. At musty Belem, they were met by the weird sounds & sights of the jungle and, in the air-conditioned bar of Pan Am's guest house, by a more startling sight-the statue of a single-breasted Amazon...