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...hours later, the Danube treaty, which gives the Soviet Union control of the Danube as far upstream as Ulm, was signed by the delegates with two Ever-sharp fountain pens. The Western nations refused to sign. Ana Pauker, in high spirits, wore her twelfth new suit in 20 days (smoke-grey with white piping, New Look length). Her immediate plans: "A holiday trip on the Danube-our Danube...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Evil & the Postmaster | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Walla Walla, Wash., a week after Francis Drake got a suspended sentence for petty larceny and a dollar in cash from benign Judge T. A. Paul, he turned up in court on a forgery charge, explained that he had used the court's dollar to buy a fountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Designer Loewy, 52, has come a long way since he landed in New York, at 27. He has streamlined automobiles (the old Hupmobile, the present Studebaker), railroad locomotives, club cars and coaches (for the Pennsylvania and the Monon), ships (the Matson line's Lurline), airplane interiors (Constellations), fountain pens (Eversharp), supermarkets (California's "Lucky" chain), department stores (Houston's new windowless' $12,000,000 Foley Bros...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MERCHANDISING: Wake Up & Dream | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...tried to toughen him up by making him go out and fight with the boys. He grew up with an abiding fear of being a sissy, sensitive, selfconscious, a good dancer, a hard worker, ashamed of his family and relentlessly honest with himself. He met Margy at a soda fountain where they both lingered because neither of them wanted to go home to their quarreling families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: It's a Woman's World | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Fertility Up. And there were the witnesses. Said Merrill Sampson of Lakeville, director of the State Duck Growers' Association: "Brown's master cell upped my egg production 50%. Upped fertility 20%. I thought it was a lot of hokum, but it is the fountain of youth." Reported Dairyman Wilfred Schobel: "This stuff makes the coats of horses and cows shine like mirrors. Makes cows give more milk and eat less. Makes 'em more quiet, too. Took the wiggle out of one real mean cow I own. She just stands there now-all full of the master cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Miracle of Middleboro | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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