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...looting" Berlin and denounces-with no supporting proof-removal of its factories to the Western zones. All but the Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows, the frantic handclapping of a single S.E.D. delegate echoes hollowly. It is nearly tea time and the British observers leave their bench. The Russian's attention wanders and he files his nails with an air of unbearable boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Bear of Berlin | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

That night he got down to work on ECA's program. He was embarrassed by his lack of information. He made a frantic telephone call for help to his close friend Maurice T. Moore, Manhattan lawyer and Studebaker director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Man in a Hurry | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...Russians wanted to create an exciting diversion, they did their work well. Twenty Soviet Tommy-gunners set up a roadblock in the British sector. Up wheeled British armored vehicles, backed by 100 troopers, and off moved the Russians. Two little American girls wandered off and 300 soldiers spent six frantic hours finding them. "We just got on a bus," explained one of the tots casually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: We Will Sit Tight | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Wasn't It Fun?" Instantly the fight became a free-for-all. Mme. Thorez (Jeannette Vermeerseh) screamed. Thorez, dabbing his bloody face with a handkerchief, tried to get up. His friends yelled "Agent provocateur!'' and "Hold him!" at Laurent; they attacked the group of flyers. A frantic Russian shouted "Nyet! Nyet!" A French major who tried to restore calm was tossed out into the gutter. Ambassador Bogomolov, safe in a corner, roared with laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Mouse for Maurice | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Ferreting through the hard pressed staffs of Boston hospitals for a reserve supply of pulse-quickeners in nurse's garb, Summer J. Chertok '48 and Frederic M. Fialkow '51, co-chairmen of the PBH blood committee, issued a frantic plea to donors last night to keep "hands-off" policy with the nurses in the blood drive starting Thursday, March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH, No Vampire but Out for Blood, Seeks Feminine Pulse-Encouragers | 2/26/1948 | See Source »

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