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...pathway to the total state that was traveled by the people of Germany, of Italy, of Russia. Harry Truman, Tom Dewey and Henry Wallace are birds of one feather. All three are kowtowing to minority blocs by advocating the so-called civil-rights program. This time they can not fool the people and especially the Democrats of the South. The Jeffersonian Democrats have spewed out of their mouths that mongrel outfit which captured our party at Philadelphia." That went fine in the Dixiecrat South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Dixiecrat Medley | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Mexico has two top conductors. They do not like each other much. Conductor Carlos Chávez of the National Symphony Orchestra has referred (in print) to José Yves Limantour as a "calumniator, howler, fool, evil person . . . and despicable." Limantour of the Jalapa Symphony Orchestra is equally outspoken about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: National Emergency | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...There exist in English 1,300 ways of calling a man a fool and 1,050 for calling a woman a slut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horrible Oaths | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...volley, wear velvet socks . . . The good-looking young athlete, perfectly dressed, is made to feel a fool if his bad shot is returned by a man who looks as if he has never been on a tennis court before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Potter's Ploys | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...listen to the Sermon on the Mount, when they know that atom bombs are being made for use?" Why, he asks, listen to the greatest compendium of moral law ever issued, in a time of singular moral lawlessness? In other words, why should anybody be such a fool as to consult a physician in a time of epidemic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1948 | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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