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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In between getting bills ready for Congress (see below) and holding a reception for 128 foreign diplomats and wives in Blair House, Harry Truman found time for a list of visitors ranging from ten Blue Star Mothers to Roman Catholic Archbishop Yu-pin of Nanking. A delegation from the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: And a Pair of Brass Spurs | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Washington could hardly wait for the trial of Countess Felicia Gizycka's suit to break the will of her mother, Publisher Eleanor Patterson of the Washington Times-Herald (TIME, Sept. 27). It promised to rattle many a family skeleton. But one afternoon last week just twelve days before the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Countess' Cut | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

John (Ronald Reagan) comes back from years in Europe to marry pining Mary (Patricia Neal). He is slightly handicapped because he has already entered a token marriage with an English girl-only to get her into the U.S. so that she can marry her long-lost love and John'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 7, 1949 | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Together with Fels Carter, a heavy-handed sophomore, Gay ought to be the chief crowd-getter in the fencing meets. His antics come as close to Douglas Fair-banks as any can.

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Peroy Heartened By Gay's Arrival | 2/3/1949 | See Source »

Before he opened Santa Anita 15 years ago, Strub sent aides to scout the eastern tracks and report in detail what was wrong with them. The findings: poor parking facilities, not enough elbow room in grandstands. So Doc ordered up the largest parking lot in the U.S. (215 acres of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Doc's Gold Mine | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

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