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The Inner Life. Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle has traveled a long way since he was "born in Lille, 57 years ago, the son of a philosophy professor. He early acquired a love of reading and learning, and at Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, where he has a country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Great Gamble | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Puerto Rico's home government, which knows that migration is the best and easiest solution to the island's unemployment, hopes that somebody will work out a plan to channel the migrants to U.S. farm and industrial areas. Any diversion of the flood would take a lot of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Sugar-Bowl Migrants | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

The attributing of sensual or spiritual qualities to music itself is an arbitrary thing indeed. Since extreme religiosity is a diversion of sensuality, it seems not unsuitable that so-called sensuous music be used as a means of stimulating religious fervor. But music itself has no real erotic influence on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

¶ This will require diversion of grain shipments from the West, which will more than offset the rise in grain production.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: WHAT THE WORLD WILL EAT | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

It was an explanation that did not satisfy such protesters as the Metropolitan Opera, Fiorello LaGuardia or Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini, longtime friend of Puccini, made public his telegram to President Truman: "[I] implore you to forbid this greedy diversion of great Italian musical art . . . you, who are a passionate lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Greedy Diversion | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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