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...atmosphere of Italy," wrote Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick, "is like that of a warm day with an undercurrent of icy wind. . . . It is an odd combination of hopeful reconstruction and fearful suspense. Nowhere has the Communist victory in Czechoslovakia caused such reactions of glee among Communists and gloom among anti-Communists...
Said Gerhardsen last week: "These events [in Czechoslovakia] have awakened gloom and apprehension among us. ... The threat to Norway and to the freedom and independence of the Norwegian people is the danger which the Communist Party represents at the present moment. The most vital task in the fight for independence, democracy and security under law in Norway is that of reducing the Communist Party and its influence. . . . We will try to convince those who joined them in good faith during the war, in the belief that the Communist Party was national and democratic...
Despite their gloom, Austrians had enough resiliency left to tell stories in the cafes. A thin, shivering little Austrian dachshund, one story ran, met a couple of fat, puffing Czech mastiffs at the Czech border. "You don't want to come over here. Look how thin I am. It's cold here and there's no food," said the dachshund. "Never mind," replied the mastiffs, "at least we'll be able to bark...
...1920s business news was especially depersonalized. To get business out of the dusty gloom of the financial pages, to tell what one TIME editor called "the vast and lurid and exciting and beautiful bibliography of balance sheets," TIME broke new ground. It went to great pains to get a picture of Sosthenes Behn (the only available picture had a beard which he had shaved long before), and introduced the Hartford brothers to their A. & P. stores' customers. Out of those efforts grew FORTUNE. Even in its early years, TIME was highly selective about the three-inch, one-column portraits...
With George Hauptfuhrer still hobbled with tape, Crimson chances at Hanover tonight are overcast with gloom. In fact, victory for the quintet would be an upset; a close game, a moral victory...