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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & Happy. The trouble with any plans for Japan's economic future was that most of the area with which she needs to trade was either held or threatened by the Communists. The Communists saw the dilemma. Japan's Communist boss, plump little Sanzo Nozaka, good friend of China's Mao Tsetung, found that Marxism has little ideological appeal for his countrymen; but when he promised them more food, more work, more trade, he found that even Japanese businessmen would listen. Last week, viewing Mao Tsetung's victories in China, Comrade Nozaka was the cheeriest fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Glisson eased back, snuggled the rail and waited for an opening. In the stretch, Old Rockport finally moved out from the rail. But either the horse failed to respond with a 4-5 effort, or Glisson was too smart to use his colt up with the $100,000 Derby only nine days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Before the Big One | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...distance of an airborne object give plenty of material for the human imagination to work on. In the case of flying saucers, it appears to have worked hard. Since no single bolt or rivet of a mysterious aircraft has yet been found, there is no reason to believe that either Russians or Martians have been tearing off on mysterious cross-country trips over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Things That Go Whiz | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...church. A weary smile, at least, is there; Martin du Gard is, personally, an avowed atheist. But there is also a bored grin at the starry-eyed rationalism and humanism of the pre-carriage Barois. To Author Martin du Gard, there are no sure answers to anything, either in religion or irreligion. But most of the sting is taken out of his irony by the simple compassion for human beings that salves every page in the book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Freethinker's Dilemma | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...lies elsewhere. In the past year and a half, the HLU has turned its film series into a profitable thing for itself, but has shown only two films, "Man's Hope," and "Ivan the Terrible," which might hold any interest for the serious student. The remaining films have been either last year's box-office sensations or fairly frequent tenants at the small foreign-film theaters...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: From the Pit | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

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