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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholm's Central Station the Czech ice hockey team lined up to take the southbound train. The players had just won the world's championship and they were in an alcoholic mood. Happiest of all was hefty, beaming Manager Antonin Vo-dicka. "Everybody here?" he asked. "We could not find Marek," glowered the thinlipped man whom Prague had sent along to act as the team's Communist chaperon. But Vodicka was unconcerned. "Maybe he's in the train," he hiccoughed and stumbled in himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Everybody Here? | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

None of the cast bothers to play it straight. Apparently happiest in his spoofing is Irish Actor Arthur Shields, who slyly caricatures the screen mannerisms of his more famous brother, Barry Fitzgerald (whose real name is William Shields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1949 | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

Soon after he became Primate of Hungary, a friend asked Mindszenty's mother whether she was happy over her son's rise. The old woman said: "I have been happy many times about my son, and happiest when he prepared for the priesthood. But I lamented over him when they led him to Esztergom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY-: Their Tongues Cut Off | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Delegates to the Radcliffe meeting should snap at this new project, as should colleges in this region. It is the happiest idea NSA has had in a long while...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA: Out of the Doldrums | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

Voice: "What was the happiest period of your life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Speed | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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