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"How are you, my daughter?" he asked his first petitioner, a mother with five children clustered round her. "Pretty good, my general," the woman replied. "I'm out of work and have five children and my landlord is about to throw me out because I'm seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Alone on the Job | 9/1/1952 | See Source »

No Solution. For 65 years after his Hopkins days, Dewey preached his doctrine, making his way from the University of Michigan to the University of Chicago and finally to Columbia's Teachers College. Tugging at his mustache and rumpling his hair, he lectured in a gentle voice, pausing awkwardly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Account Rendered | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Four times since then, salvage experts have tried to bring up the Télémaque. In 1939 a diver, wallowing through the mud at the Seine's bottom, reached blindly into a barrel in the sunken hulk and came up with a fistful of gold louis. His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Fistful of Louis | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

Amazed at the fistful of crumpled pages which represented one writer's false starts on a cover story, salvaged from a wastebasket, Syracuse University's Dean of Journalism counted them carefully. There were 138.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Churchill has plaited into this book a whole fistful of narrative threads. It was a year of almost continuous desert warfare, of disaster in Greece and Crete, of crippling losses to U-boats, of devastating blitz, of almost unbroken defeat. What is much more remarkable than their coherent presentation is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three Down | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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