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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman laughed again. That's not hard to do, he said, because when he was about 16 or 20 years old, he used to go to every vaudeville show that ever came to Kansas City. He had seen the Four Cohans and Eva Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Old Act, New Lines | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Mother & Child. The power of the T.U.C. was seeping away. Said a leader of the Railwaymen's Union: "It's like a mother giving blood transfusions to save her child. To save our political offspring, we look like draining ourselves of every independent aim we ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Toward the Ice Age | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Ever since his great & good friends, Hitler & Mussolini, went down history's drain, Spain's Francisco Franco has suffered an international ostracism. In 1947, Argentina's Evita Perón broke into his loneliness with a spectacular visit. Last week it happened again-in double measure and double pleasure for Spain's plump dictator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Unlike the Navy, which thinks of Spain as a neglected sector of Western Europe's defense, State thinks that the only way to liberalize Franco's regime is through the hostility of U.S. opinion towards the Spanish dictator. Now, wailed DOS men, Franco would be harder than ever to liberalize. Undeniably, the Navy's independent foreign policy had bolstered Franco's internal position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...Male War Bride. (20th Century-Fox) is a bedroom farce with a scattering of laughs which are muffled by as thick a mixture of stale crumbs and old chestnuts as Hollywood has ever stuffed into a high-priced turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1949 | 9/12/1949 | See Source »

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