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...route that Allied planes fly from Natal to Dakar. With four U.S. Navy technicians aboard, some of the Brazilian sailors were celebrating Independence Day. A stunning explosion rocked the Baía. Subsequent blasts literally blew her apart. Blue-bloused sailors were tossed into the waves. Commander Davila Garcia Albuquerque, his arm shattered by the explosion, shouted to his crew, "Save yourselves; I'm finished." But few of them were able to. Three minutes after the first explosion the Baía sank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Disaster | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

...Forest. Mexico's Alfonso Garcia Robles averred that the right of any one of the Big Five to veto Security Council action created "a system of order in the forest which will keep the mice in order, but not the lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Of Mice & Lions | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...present is In His Steps, a pious novel by the Rev. Charles Monroe Sheldon describing a community which followed the teachings of Jesus literally. It has sold more than 8,000,000 copies. Close behind, in this order, are Scrapbookster Elbert Hubbard's Message to Garcia (4,000,000), Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind (3,625,000), Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends and Influence People (2,751,000), Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (2,500,000), and Marion Hargrove's See Here, Private Hargrove (2,500,000). Farther down the list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: HitParade: 1895-1945 | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Last to arrive, the unwelcome Argentines were apparently under strict orders to lie low, do nothing to increase the unpopularity of the U.S. -Latin bloc. Argentina's Rodolfo Garcia Arias moved quietly, his shoulders heavy with dignity and dandruff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONFERENCE: Cast of Characters | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

...Carlos Garcia of the Philippine delegation had been hiding in the hills only a few months ago. Egypt's Makram Ebeid Pasha was a political prisoner until last fall. Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Ivan Subasich had been a war exile in the U.S. Belgium's Socialist Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak brought along an old parliamentary enemy, now a fast friend-Communist Albert Marteaux, Minister of Health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: The Delegates | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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