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Broken Habit. The speech over, the President was off for a brief rest prescribed by his doctor. He went straight to the airport, boarded the Sacred Cow for a flight to the Key West naval base.* His first day there, the President began wiping out the faint traces of strain from his Mexican trip and the feverish conferences on Greece by breaking a habit: he got up at 8 a.m. instead of his usual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Work & Rest | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

Communism spread, meanwhile keep the U.S. fat. After the little nations had a bellyfull of Stalin's totalitarianism they would renounce it and rush joyfully to the U.S. The argument had a faint early 1941 ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The World & Democracy | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

While scratching his beard in a foxhole one day, Infantryman Al Daniels thought up the idea as a gag. When he came home, U.S. cosmetic peddlers, well aware of the faint line between a gag and a gold mine, would not let him forget it. So Daniels Shadow Proof Inc. of Boston last week invaded the $50,000,000-a-year men's toiletries market with a carnation-scented, flesh-colored paste which will camouflage 5 o'clock shadow and banish that unshaven look. At Manhattan's Macy's, one excited employee hailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: Shady Business | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

This Is Jazz (Sat. 2:30 p.m., Mutual). Despite a faint tone of condescension, this is a good jazz concert, featuring choice instrumentalists in jam session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...however trying and irksome our present troubles may be, the average man will blissfully murmur: 'Attlee is in 10 Downing Street. All's right with the world.'. . . Labor is justifying the voters' faith. . . . But this is the transition period. . . . This is the time when the faint hearts may turn away from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Blackout | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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