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Despite the favoring nor'easter, Henry Taylor was worried. He called La Guardia Airport, got a discouraging weather report : the seas would get glassy calm near Bermuda. Taylor hitchhiked a ride on the New York Herald Tribune's plane that circled out over the Atlantic to cover the race. Through the mist and rain he spied three sails-but no sign of Baruna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: By the Back Door | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...England Conscience. In Shirley, Mass., the Rev. Ray Meserve politely requested the "godly" to stay away from his special "sinners only" church service, thereupon had the biggest attendance since Easter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...same month last year. Civilian employment, said BLS, is also headed for a new peacetime high of 62,000,000 jobs by September. Industrial production, which had dropped in April for the second consecutive month because of the coal strike, was on the rise again. After the disappointing Easter season, department store sales, reported the Federal Reserve Board, were "at exceptionally high levels" in April and the first half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Growing | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Since Easter, Finance Minister Douglas Charles Abbott and his technical experts had worked long & hard on the budget. With Prime Minister King's O.K., Abbott laid down the general line: a tough plan, and no major tax reductions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Tough to Take | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...Cathedral read his statement in the New York Times, they decided that Composer Harris, who describes himself as "a shouting Methodist," had shouted a bit too loudly. St. Pat's had planned to perform Harris' new Mass for Men's Voices and Organ on Easter Sunday. The plans were dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: For Everybody Except Composers | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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