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...into the thick of high & low diplomacy, as counselor at the Soviet Embassy in Washington. These were dangerous times, and Molotov. decided finally to keep the old-line, ex-Menshevik diplomats (Maisky, Troyanovsky Sr., Surits et al.) from further advancement, push a younger and more reliable set to the fore. Thus, in 1943, succeeding Western-minded Maxim Litvinoff, Gromyko walked into the Oval Room of the White House and presented his ambassadorial credentials to Franklin Roosevelt. Gromyko was then 34, and looked as though he could not tell a demarche from a dinner party. He was definitely something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Negative Neanderthaler | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

Look out, Jack, dontcha be no jerk go get yours 'fore you go to work Smallpox'll get you if you hesitate So don't wait, Gate-Vaccinate

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ya Ess Goony Gress | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Among the hard-boiled mountaineers who came from Kentucky and West Virginia to work in the automobile plants, there was never any love for straw bosses. As a West Virginian called Short Laig remarked: "I aim tew get that baster who be my fore-main...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Rout at the Rouge | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Unsightly Iraqi national headdress, resembling oversized U.S. Army fore-&-aft caps, known to Westerners as the only headgear a man can) leave on a Middl'e East hatrack without fear of theft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: Hashimite Huddle | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

...Greece was included this request be fore the special $400 million for Greece and Turkey was thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Potent Weapon | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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