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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hsieh (whose full name meant Thanks Moon Angel) to the radio to assure the public-incorrectly-that nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly in Nanking. Fellow Formosans did not like Moon Angel's radio speech, however. They dragged her furniture and belongings into the street and burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Snow Red & Moon Angel | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...minutes before broadcast time, the famous comedian pushed his way through the stage curtain and raked the studio audience with a cold, poached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The World's Worst Juggler | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Chained Art. Nadia Boulanger was born in a house full of music. Her grandfather was a composer and so was her father, who in 1835 won the Prix de Rome. Her grandmother was a famous singer at the Opera-Comique and her mother a Russian princess. Nadia herself won prizes in every subject she studied at the Paris Conservatory, topped it off with the second Grand Prix de Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Boulanger | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

Doctors, like some other types of scientists, suspect that they might be able to clean up some of the mess that politicians have made. More than a score of the world's most famous physicians met in Manhattan last week to consider the idea. The occasion was a centennial meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine. Their topic: "Social Medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Social Physicians | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...Suffolk solitude, where he wrote his little-known translations of Aeschylus and Sophocles. As he aged, he became one of the county sights-a "tall, sad-faced elderly gentleman ... in an ill-fitting suit. . . blue spectacles on nose and an old cape. . . ." He lived to see his Rubaiyat become famous, but died (1883) a couple of decades before its fame became "a mania which swept the world" and posed a literary question that still engrosses Rubaiyat lovers : How much of Omar is Omar and how much is FitzGerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Translator of the Rubaiyat | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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