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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premature. The French handled for the U.N. one problem which literally camped on its doorstep-Garry Davis, idealistic son of U.S. Bandleader Meyer Davis, who renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to become a "citizen of the world" (TIME, Sept. 20). Young Davis pitched a pup tent across from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Garry ("The Man Without a Country") Davis, 26, once a gay blade about Broadway, was pretty serious in Paris about his one-man crusade for World Government (he renounced his U.S. citizenship last May to dramatize his point).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

When the French government gave him 24 hours to get out of the country, Garry took sanctuary on the steps of the U.N. administration building. There, sunning himself on territory that is technically international property, he relaxed and prepared to wait until U.N. acts on his case. His equipment for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

At Lafayette, not far away, Purdue's Boilermakers were practicing in secret last week behind a high canvas screen. Businesslike Coach Stu Holcomb, who had been an assistant to Earl Blaik at West Point in the Davis-Blanchard heyday, had them hustling. He got the Boilermakers out on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leahy Carries On | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

¶ Prudential's Family Hour abandons the music field, promises 30 minutes of drama with Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis, Gregory Peck, et al.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Comes September | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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