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...hinted that Dewey is a "front man" for fascism, and likened him to Hitler.) In an effort to inject some commotion, both parties revived the old-time torchlight procession. Harry Truman began the week with a monster rally in Chicago, where Boss Jake Arvey's minions kindled enough flame and fireworks to burn down the whole town. Tom Dewey, after another dash through the Midwest, would conclude his campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally which would be heralded by the red flares of a Manhattan parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: View from a Polling Booth | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...kind of explosion that occasionally shatters the peace & quiet of a U.S. campus. A popular teacher had been fired, students picketed in his defense, and in the flame and smoke of controversy it soon became hard to tell who was right, or what the shooting was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Bung & the Trough | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...Flame. In Washington, Ralph Miller asked a stranger for a light, claimed the lighter he had lost three years ago in the South Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...principals stopped rushing around just long enough to use their heads. A young advertising executive (Fred MacMurray) is having wife trouble because he spends too many nights on the ad account of a "Mr. Fraser," who happens to be Mrs. Fraser (Louise Allbritton) and an old flame at that. This not improbable situation gets out of hand when the wife (Madeleine Carroll) plans to test her spouse's jealousy. She hires an actor to flirt with her at a nightclub; the actor's agent tips off the husband in advance; an unsuspecting tobacco tycoon (Charles "Buddy" Rogers) sits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...ethics of the underclassmen, the souvenirs belonged to them. For with California's help, the U.S. had run up 662 points when the Olympic "permanent flame" went out last week after the dampest, most amicable Olympiad of the modern age. Next in line: Sweden 353, France 230½, Hungary 201½, Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Golden Boys | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

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