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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chewing a fat, four-inch stogie, Finland's most popular "war criminal" stepped out the gate of Helsinki's Sornas Prison last week into the welcoming arms of his wife, eight children and eleven grandchildren. White-haired, 68-year-old Vaino Tanner, condemned by a Communist-run tribunal for advocating war with Russia in 1941, had been granted remission of half his 5½-year sentence. "I am sure I am the best living advertisement for Finnish prisons," smiled the old man. "I have gained 15 pounds in weight and feel fitter than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Political Paavo | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

...they took the trouble to walk down Tremont Street past Park Street Church and look in to the left, they could see the place for themselves--the Old Granary Burial Ground, where the tombs of Paul Revere and Mrs. Mary Goose, who wrote the famous verses for her grandchildren, lie only 50 feet apart...

Author: By E. PARKER Haydon jr., | Title: Circling the Square | 12/1/1948 | See Source »

Born. To William Clay Ford, 23, and Martha Firestone Ford, 23, grandchildren of the late Automaker Henry Ford and Tiremaker Harvey Firestone: their first child, a daughter; in New Haven, Conn. Name: Martha. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 15, 1948 | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

...court. The company, which had been losing money in 1945 and 1946, had improved enough to pay dividends of $2 a share last December and $3 a share last April. About one-third of the $1,907,100 paid on the stock held by the estate went to grandchildren Henry, Benson, William and Josephine Ford, who were left the voting stock. The rest went to the Ford Foundation, which inherited the non-voting stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Nov. 8, 1948 | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...novel that Orville Windom's grandchildren find in his strongbox after his death is not a very good novel. In fact, a reader not sharing their family interest might be tempted to say that it is the worst novel he has ever read. It is, however, the sort of novel a distinguished Supreme Court Justice might write. It is an extraordinary mixture of learning and naivete, of self-conscious poeticizing and shrewd observation, with dim characters wandering about in a grey, dreamlike fog, bumping into ghosts bearing the names of historical personages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portions of Wisdom | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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