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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news broke that escaped Russian flier Anatoly Barsov was returning to the Soviet Union, Reporter Anatole Visson, of our Washington bureau, headed for the hotel where Barsov had stayed during his last days in the U.S. Visson, who was born in Russia and speaks five other languages besides Russian, found two notebooks among Barsov's effects. Visson translated the diary that night, gaining a clean newsbeat for TIME, then turned the notebooks over to the State Department...
Last week the option seemed to have run out. A newsman called at Browder's one-room, $100-a-month office on Manhattan's West 42nd Street and found that the publishing business had been closed up since the end of July. Earl Browder no longer had a pipeline to the Kremlin. "I have not been able to talk to Joe Stalin and find out if he still loves me," said Browder, wryly. "I am unemployed at present and looking...
...Spots. Then the ward leaders got a surprise in turn-they were not asked to pick the new faces. Meade asked Philadelphia's bankers, lawyers, doctors and the biggest businessmen in town to help him with his selections, got four candidates of almost unbelievable political purity. The machine found itself running an investment banker and economist for controller, a professor of medicine for coroner, a wealthy meat packer for treasurer, a prominent lawyer for register of wills...
...friends won't tell you"), to snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers to movie stars, were astoundingly successful sales plugs. ("Fifty million women a week see movies," explained one adman. "They see these dames always get their man, so they want to use Lux soap...
Oversight. In Harlingen, Tex., E. N. Foster apologized for mistakenly reporting that thieves had carried off his 800-lb. boiler: he later found it mislaid in a closet...