Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman had agreed to the policy switch from partition to trusteeship apparently without realizing what the switch meant. An anguished Clark Clifford had pointed out to him that it was political suicide. But by that time the deed was done...
...world could be expected to know where the U.S. stood on Palestine. Harry Truman's comic-opera performance had done little credit to the greatest power in the world...
...Washington's Hotel Shoreham one day last week, 3,000 dentists were shown an easy way of putting themselves halfway out of business. Dr. John Knutson, of the U.S. Public Health Service, demonstrated the best way of swabbing children's teeth with fluoride.*Properly done, the swabbing appears to reduce cavities by 40 to 50% (TIME...
...second Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
...Lynn Belvedere is hired sight unseen. To their dismay, Lynn turns out to be a middle-aged male (Clifton Webb), who coolly describes himself as a genius. He is also a polysyllabic practitioner of yoga, and easily the most versatile handyman since Leonardo da Vinci. Before he is done with solving problems and subjugating parents, he fries the whole community...