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...Trouble. From the beginning, Golschmann had met St. Louis halfway: he kept right on championing new music but he also worked hard to increase his command of the classics St. Louis loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Halfway in St. Louis | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...should anybody want to meet Mr. Eliot-even halfway? More particularly, why should Americans bother about this Missouri-born American who talks like an Englishman, has not lived in the U.S. for the past 36 years, and gave up his U.S. citizenship to become a British subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: Mr. Eliot | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

...Directions calls "The Cannibal" a novel "halfway between nightmare and myth." Hawkes has taken a decaying German village, Spitzen-on-the-Dein, and used its rubble as a stage-set for a fever-dream, and for a series of enlarged, fore-shortened images which obstinately refuse to tie into the story...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: To Skin a Fox | 2/23/1950 | See Source »

...radio message from Halfway Valley, 180 miles northwest of Fort St. John, B.C., was brief and urgent. An epidemic of diphtheria had broken out in an Indian village on the Stoney River; 50-odd stricken natives needed help at once. From Whitehorse, Indian Affairs' Department Nurse Amy Wilson flew to Fort St. John; Nurse Aileen Bond started out from Dawson Creek, B.C. Last week the British Columbia Health Department released Nurse Bond's report on their three-week-long fight against the disease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Choking Death | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Halfway across the Pacific, Rear Admiral Walter F. Boone eased the big aircraft carrier Boxer into Pearl Harbor, on his way to strengthen the Navy's Seventh Fleet in the Philippines. "I have no 'shoot' orders," he said briskly, "but we are fully prepared for any eventuality and have a full allowance of ammunition . . . The Navy's mobile air power in the Western Pacific is one of the principal instruments of U.S. diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Inscrutable Occidentals | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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