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...tried to enter the same elevator and was blocked by a line of photographers. A U.S. Army captain pushed a photographer aside, and Smuts eased in. Molotov, painfully embarrassed, bobbed a greeting to Smuts. One of the hard-faced Russian guards peered at Smuts's insignia, twitched an eyebrow at another guard whose expression seemed to say: "How would I know...
...Palace Hotel would have fresh California fruit in its rooms each day; the Mark Hopkins sternly warned its bellhops not to raise an eyebrow at foreign customs. It also cautioned them that some guests might not even tip them...
...there were rumblings within the G.O.P.'s ranks. When New York's Governor Tom Dewey won high praise from the C.I.O. for his anti-discrimination bill (TIME, March 19) and other "liberal" measures, many a conservative Republican eyebrow was lifted. Last week Chairman Brownell appointed, as Congressional aide to the National Committee, round-faced, ex-Senator John Anthony Danaher, of Connecticut, who had been beaten last fall largely on his isolationist voting record. But John Danaher had gained the respect of Republican Senators and Congressmen, of all shades of opinion, for his legal talents and his capacity...
...balloons tethered in its skies, incongruous lifebelts draped around monstrous water tanks, fantastic vistas of destruction, decorative weeds running wild amid ancient stones, that the fact that ice-cream cones are now being devoured in broad daylight in the West End will hardly cause it to raise an eyebrow...
Five Republicans of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week came out with an eyebrow-raising minority report on the French Lend-Lease agreement (TIME, March 12). They said it was "by its very terms a postwar agreement...