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Washingtonians on 16th Street could set their watches by Russian Charge d'Affaires Nikolai Vassilievitch Novikov. It was exactly 9:10 every morning when he strode through the entrance of the Soviet Embassy. Last week, when he assumed the title of ambassador, he was still on the dot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Same Habit, Same Hand | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Chili Williams, "The Polka Dot Girl," wounded Dry-Goodsman William Schiller, who calls himself "The Polka Dot King." He had her under contract to wear nothing but polka dots (see cut), but lately, complained Schiller-a man who crosses his ts and eyes his dots-she had appeared dotless in public. He set out to break the contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Inside Dopesters | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...myriad islands in the mid-Pacific, few have had a more colorful history than little Kusaie, a six-by nine-mile dot in the Carolines. Americans were the first white men there, in 1806. Brutal, roisterous, buccaneering crews of U.S. whaling ships turned the gentle natives into fierce killers. For years Kusaie was an island of savagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: King John Proposes | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...head came from barren Easter Island, where the natives are at a loss to explain the great stone images, up to 60 feet high, which dot the island. They say their old king knew all about them, but he and his court scholars were carried off by Peruvian slave raiders in 1862. More explicable objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: South Sea Spooks | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...make Ford first again keeps Young Henry moving fast with his bouncing stride. He gets up early, usually at 6 a.m., showers and dresses. Most of the time he wears dark, expensively cut grey or blue double-breasted suits (still made by his prep-school tailor), favors blue polka dot four-in-hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Young Henry Takes a Risk | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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