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...beat a victory gong, no firecrackers sputtered. But for the first time in almost two years of political haggling, China could look with cautious hope to a truce in her civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Hope | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Grocer Novelist. A man writing a novel, said Mr. Trollope briskly, is comparable to a grocer weighing out tea. Mr. Trollope professed scorn for "inspiration," described how he rose at 5:30 every morning, set his watch at his elbow, and wrote without stopping until the breakfast gong brought him back to the important things of life. He always wrote, he said, at the rate of 250 words per 15 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trollope's Comeback | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...remained to be seen how much of their gains the Chinese could hold. But to China, after eight years of unrelieved defeat and retreat, the battle news last week came like the crash of a victory gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The New Army | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

Along with good liquor and beautiful women, fair Boston is sadly lacking a supply of hot music. Nevertheless, if you haven't heard, the boys at Nick's kick the gong around or cried in your beer listening to Billie for a long, long time, and are on the verge of either turning square or going over the hill to New York, you will be able to get some amount of kicks out of one or two of the local jump bands. The best of a poor lot of these bands is probably Sabby Lewis, who once in a while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 6/9/1944 | See Source »

...cork floor, paused, peered at small pictures invisibly screwed to the walls. At 3:15, a uniformed guard made his routine round of inspection. His eyes widened in horror: only screw holes marked the spot where Simone's St. Thomas had hung. He rushed to his superior. No gong clanged, no revolvers flashed from holsters. People leaving the museum were closely scrutinized. (Frisking or detaining on suspicion on such occasions is not cricket.) But no departing visitor had a suspicious bulge. At 5 o'clock, in an atmosphere of tense frustration, the museum closed its massive doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Thief! Thief! | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

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