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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sir: For the information of [Designer] Raymond Loewy, I would like him to know that heads and right hands are not easy to come by. The latter I reluctantly left in one of his well-designed automobile interiors, caught between the arm rest and window handle, one balmy summer day...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 25, 1948 | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

Veteran tuna fishermen from all over the northeast had to bow to Rodman A. Sharp '51 recently when he handed the season's biggest fish--an 850-pound bluefin at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '51 Angler Lands Huge Tuna | 10/19/1948 | See Source »

Last week, the British delegation at Paris presented a so-called "countermove" to the Russian one-third-in-a-year disarmament proposals. The resolution, handed to the Political Security Committee, called for a verdict from the entire Assembly that the Russians had obstructed arms-reduction negotiations. On the same day...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Grand Jury at Paris | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

"What Am I Doing Here?" On the third and fourth day, they were instructed to write confessions. None of their "confessions" were acceptable. On the fifth day they were handed "confessions" and told to sign them. Interrogators pointed to a stack of statements by company employees. "You're not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECONOMICS: Or Else-- | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

In Geneva last week, ailing and half blind at 74, he handed to a friend the small blue booklet in which His Britannic Majesty commended his subject, Chaim Weizmann, to the world: the passport would be returned to Britain's Home Secretary. In a DC-4, Weizmann flew to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: After a Small Pause | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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