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...July, the Japs issued an imperial edict freeing Dr. Stuart-if he would ask Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to negotiate with the U.S. for Japan. He refused either to leave his two companions or to transmit the terms. Less than a month later all three were free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stuart of Yenching | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures In Thurberland | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Undismayed by the Union's edict ("As I am not a member ... I was excommunicated from nothing"), Mordecai Kaplan retorted that the rabbis were "merely making themselves ridiculous. . . . The Union . . . speaks in medieval terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Old & the New | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...undergraduate weekly Flat Hat of Virginia's old (1693) William and Mary College at Williamsburg, led swiftly last week to: 1) the firing of Flat Hat's Editor in Chief, 22-year-old Marilyn Kaemmerle of Jackson, Mich., who wrote the editorial; 2) an administration edict that the paper's remaining editors must choose between faculty censorship and suspension; 3) a spirited mass meeting of W. & M.'s 1,000-odd students protesting infringement of the "sacred principles of freedom of the press" bequeathed by Alumnus Thomas Jefferson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Jefferson's Heirs | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

With robomb speed the news swept feminine Britain-hips will henceforth be streamlined, busts will again be budgetable. By edict of the nine middle-aged men who sit on the Corset Advisory Board, Britain's "austerity" corset (TIME, Aug. 7) has gone the way of the bustle and the hoopskirt. No more will the cotton-and-cardboard stays bulge in the wrong places, snag up in coils where curves should be. There will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Midriff and Morale | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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