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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing with fire. The Soviet underground is active too -telling this general and that expropriated industrialist: 'Your time will come, you can work with us.' Maybe that is why you will find some Christian Democrats, but no Socialists, at tea parties like the one at Godesberg. A fine way to behave for those people who just finished mourning the loss of Mindszenty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Spring Festivals, a beauty queen last week took up her reign in Mexico City. Titian-haired Luz del Carmen ("Moy") Otero rode into the bullfight ring at the head of a 16-car cavalcade, presided at horse races, and went to a ball every night. Moy had a fine time and so did her father, suave General Ignacio Otero, commandant of the First Military Zone. Moy owed it all to Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Queen for the Week | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...takes a turn back to pre-Wagnerian opera with recitative and arias. The orchestra is subordinated to action on the state, though, judging by Thursday night's performance, Conductor Emil Cooper must think the opposite. The music is full of the sea--powerful and unsympathetic. It is a fine mood setting for the vicious fishing village, and Grimes' proscription by the other inhabitants is well portrayed. There are several numbers which stand out: the quartet the end of the first scene of act two, Grimes' song, "In dreams I've built myself some kindlier home," and Ellen's "Embroidery...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: The Music Box | 4/2/1949 | See Source »

...survey--the Administration prefers to think of it as an "inquiry"--is being made by Andrews S. Seiler who is most decidedly a food expert. He is also a member of the Overseers Dining Halls Visiting Committee which qualifies him as a friend of the University, and this is fine because he won't be selling any steam tables along with his survey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food Survey | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

What is the matter? We are told than '46 Album will be ready by this June--just three years after it was due, just in time for the class reunion. We are told by the '47-'48 book's staff that their volume will be kingsized, bound in fine old leather, printed on sleek paper--but we haven't seen either of these tomes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Where Are the Albums? | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

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