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Dates: during 1940-1949
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You Are There (Sun. 2 p.m., CBS) at the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 28, 1948 | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

At Lever House in Cambridge, Mass., Luckman practices his belief that the best management makes the big plans, delegates their execution. He has surrounded himself with a "first team" of six new, youngish vice presidents. Says Boss Luckman: "They carry the ball. All I do is call the signals."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Calling the Signals | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

MacArthur cajoled the Cabinet and the Diet into creating a new constitution, which was not only a democratic marvel (in form) but also contained a renunciation of war. Labor organizations were set up and encouraged to assert their rights. War criminals were brought to trial. Several of them, on the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: One or Many? | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Moscow has recently debunked other Western delusions of grandeur. The steam engine, it seems, was not invented by Britain's James Watt, but by Ivan Polzunov. Thomas Edison gets false credit for the light bulb; Alexander Lodygin thought it up first. The first airplane was not constructed by Wilbur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Age of Rediscovery | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Died. U Saw, 47, dapper, wily onetime Premier of Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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