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...hulking building with the pink neon sign-it might have been a sports arena, a warehouse or a hangar for tomorrow's giant rocket bomber-stood in the greyer part of grey Philadelphia. Along its long corridors and empty galleries, janitors toiled glumly amid drifts of paper cups, candy wrappers, newspapers and stale buns. As a band blurted out the first brassy music of the morning, the great main floor was only half filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONVENTION: The Voices of the Land | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...Very clearly," I replied. "Through field glasses from about 60 feet. He is getting greyer, but his face has much more animation than I would have guessed from pictures. He never paused to catch his breath as he climbed up Lenin's tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Write with the Heart | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Maury was taking an interest again in his home town. This week he filed his candidacy for mayor. His chances looked good. He was a little greyer, a little fatter; he was almost broke, and he no longer talked with his old sass. But San Antonio seemed to want a man without too many surprises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Maury's Back! | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...little greyer, considerably heavier and hopefully wiser after five years on the job, Rexford Guy Tugwell left the turbulent Puerto Rican governorship last September and retired to the peace & quiet of Chicago. As professor of political science at the University of Chicago he no longer had 2,000,000 citizens in his domain nor a 70 ft. by 30 ft. gubernatorial bedroom at his disposal. But he had time at last to review his Puerto Rican record and his relations with Franklin Roosevelt, who sent him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Anatomy of Loyalty | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...Speaker strode up behind the gold mace and seated himself in his canopied chair. Prime Minister Clement Attlee came in early, lounged comfortably on his front bench, upped his feet on the table before him. Then Anthony Eden, Acting Deputy Leader of the Opposition, immaculate as ever but notably greyer, settled down on his own front bench, with his feet on the same table. Only six feet separated the Labor and Tory soles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Deadly Serious | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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