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Dates: during 1940-1949
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If General Patton had the effrontery to say to the Almighty (who has handed down the commandment "Thou shalt not kill") give me good weather "so that I can annihilate the whole German army with one stroke as a birthday present for Your Prince of Peace" [TIME, Jan. 10], he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 31, 1949 | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

Blue-Ribbon Juries. But even the cool and collected Medina had not been able to keep proceedings on the track. They were still in the pretrial stage when the Communists engineered a legal collision which confounded confusion. They challenged the whole system of picking "blue-ribbon" juries. If they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Red Labyrinth | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

A tiny old woman in black, her eyes glazed with grief, accosted Correspondent Low. She was carrying a bottle of raw, homemade brandy, and a glass. She poured the glass brimfull and handed it to Low. "Ghia tin psychi ton makariti! (Here's to the souls of the dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crucified | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

On the day the War Cabinet handed down its decision on the final, watered-down draft, Weizmann was waiting outside in the corridor. Suddenly his friend, Sir Mark Sykes, burst out of the cabinet room waving the Balfour Declaration. "Dr. Weizmann," he cried, "it's a boy." "Well," reminisces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: With Psalms & Spades | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

In Cannes, France, Aly Khan called in reporters and handed around typewritten statements announcing his engagement to Rita Hayworth (he is still married to his first wife; Rita's divorce from Orson Welles became final last November). Said he: "I am going to marry Miss Hayworth as soon as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Talking of Shop | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

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