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Coed Iris Alexander, a junior at the University of Wisconsin, had been to a campus party, after a football game. One of the boys she met there took her home, and they talked a while on the porch. When she said goodnight and stepped inside the door of her rooming house, her landlord told her to move out. To Landlord Arthur Rupe's way of thinking, he had good reason: Iris' escort was a Negro. A fellow roomer took Iris' side, and Rupe ordered her out, too. "A private home," said he, "is no place for inter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: No Place to Mix | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Where to say goodnight? Where to find answers to soft questions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Esmerelda, a Car with Spirit, Carries On | 7/25/1947 | See Source »

...hung up before I could say 'goodnight.' " Two days later, Barkley was elected Senate leader by one vote. Dieterich voted for Barkley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Big Jim Explains | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Cliffe dormitory sofas, off limits for all males since the Annex administration decided that 'Cliffedwellers and their dates were taking too long to say goodnight, will once more serve what all Harvard men consider their fit purpose when the Agassiz Hall living room and the gymnasium are thrown open for dancing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Holds May Day Bazaar Tonight To Aid Five Charities | 5/1/1947 | See Source »

...Smasher. In stage center, Elizabeth blossomed as she never had in the back row. Reporters called her a natural, and radiomen crooned in delight when, at the end of her first broadcast, she ad-libbed a homey little touch by asking Margaret to say goodnight to the British evacuees abroad. Stage-struck from childhood, and on her own at last, Elizabeth was in her element, even if she did sometimes take her duties too seriously. On one dreadful occasion, when she was invited to review the graduating class at a famous officers' training school, Elizabeth had promptly pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ein Tywysoges | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

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