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...alarm was false, the millers innocent of spite, Harry Truman unjustly accused. Easter could come as usual. Across young, churchbound backsides would still be emblazoned the good old legend: 100 LBS. FRESH GROUND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Foul Rumor | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...messenger on the Jack Benny radio program a few years ago who drawled, "Sor-ry, but y'can't have the telegram 'thout signin'...comp'ny reg'lations y'know." He nasalizes similar lines as the psychopathic villain in the slight chiller now filling the Copley Theatre. The down-easter with the Maine twang is, in blunt fact, "Little Brown Jug's" sole claim to a dubious fame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 2/26/1946 | 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 »

...They were not badly worried: the loss will make no financial difference, since all foreign musical programs were carried on a sustaining basis. It would stop only two major shows: Atlantic Spotlight, on NBC, and Transatlantic Call on CBS. When NAB suggested that the order might stop Christmas and Easter broadcasts from the Vatican and Jerusalem, Caesar Petrillo exploded. Said he: "We've never stopped religious programs at any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: All for Love | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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