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...odes to daybreak entered last week in Japan's annual imperial poetry contest. The work of Emperor Hirohito himself, it was composed in a railway carriage enroute to the much-bombed town of Mito. The prizewinning poem (by a lesser author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Various Fishes | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...some cities, Government organizers in groups of three had gone from house to house at daybreak to round up voters, then marched them to the polls under the watchful eyes of armed soldiers, militia men and security police, who were guarding towns and roads as well as the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: In the Yalta Tradition | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

Long before sunrise, the people of Paris started their pilgrimage. By daybreak, they had become a solid grey mass covering the Champs Elysées and the Place de la Concorde, solemnly waiting to pay homage to the American emissary. When finally they spied his carriage, behind its glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Paris, 27 Years Later | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

During the night the Great Lakes pleasure ship Hamonic moved through Lake St. Clair and up the St. Clair River from Detroit and Windsor. An hour after daybreak she eased into the dock at Point Edward, Ont. Her 247 passengers, most of them Americans, got up drowsily for a picnic ashore. Later, 80-odd more passengers would arrive from Toronto. Then the Canada Steamship Lines' 36-year-old ship would shove off for Duluth, Minn, as she had done many times for many summers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: ONTARIO: The Hamonic Burns | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Revival in France | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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