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Brooke enjoyed his short life too much to bear down often with sustained intensity on any writing, artistic or critical. Poverty and illness and ambition drove his poetic progenitor John Keats; but early success, doting friends and romantic passions distracted Brooke. He was almost at his best in his letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All One Could Wish ... | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

In dark Berlin, the lights blazed bright and late at a white sandstone building at 42 Schlüterstrasse. From the second-floor balcony windows, the sound of scores of stamping feet and the melody of a rousing polka carried into the silent street. Beyond the curtained windows, in one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: INTERMEZZO | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

Politicians and reporters, who rarely agree, found themselves united at last week's Democratic Convention on one proposition: photographers can be a hell of a nuisance. At the few exciting moments, a human wall of cameramen lined the edge of the speakers' platform. Some reporters in the press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 23 Minutes to Anywhere | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

Under the Roof. Frantic cries from inside a nearby flattened shop came from two women and two children pinned beneath the wooden roof. Distracted passersby paused for a moment to help pry up the fallen beams. By this time the fire was spreading in all directions, coming toward us fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Worse than B-29s | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Despite the LeCorbeillers deep interest in General Education the master of the house can easily be distracted. Just confront him with one of two listeners and a black board and both chalk and an excited index finger will start wagging as Philippe LeCorbeiller takes a long, penetrating glance at a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Le Corbeiller: Philosophizing Physicist. . . | 3/3/1948 | See Source »

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