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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol for the build-up was Communist Artist Pablo Picasso's "Dove of Peace." Everywhere in the Soviet sector, on handbills, stickers and banners, the benign bird cooed Communist "pacifism." Berliners only sneered at the "Trojanische Taube" (Trojan dove); they dubbed each propaganda flurry as "Geflűgel Woche" (Poultry Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Shape of Puppetdom | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...sale a hatlike home hair dryer for women, the "Turbanette." Price: $6.95. (It will soon go on sale in 30 other stores in 16 other cities.) The inventor, John Moore, ex-aircraft engineer at Lockheed, got the idea from seeing aircraft engines packed with sacks containing silica gel (a deliquescent powder) to protect them from moisture. The turban of cotton muslin packed with silica gel will dry a woman's hair-after washing-in half an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

After lunching with U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, the Congressmen flew off to Berlin. From there, General Lucius Clay's special train for V.I.P.s trundled them to Essen, and a motorcade took them to Villa Hügel, the family mansion of the Krupps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Uncle, Uncle | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Ten | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...brace of Villa Hügel retainers blocked the door. Strapping (6 ft. 5) Lieut. Colonel Clarence Sagmoen merely drew his Colt 45, and a passage opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Herr Krupp & the Future | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

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