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...Promised Land was the unpaid balance of a divine I.O.U., when they lived among more or less hostile Gentiles, religion was a far more vital force than it is today in Israel. The Jew is supposed to wear a hat; in Tel Aviv, young men risk sunstroke to go hatless. Waiters at the Armon Hotel in Tel Aviv have no qualms about offering guests bacon. Throughout the country dietary laws are widely breached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...lake the gentleman stepped into a little boat and was rowed over to the island in its center. Ducks quacked and splattered indignantly as he stepped ashore, entered a small concrete hut, carefully closed the steel door behind him. A few minutes later he emerged hatless, took a deep breath and wiped the sweat from his brow. Dr. Hugh Watts, Chief Inspector of Explosives for the Home Office, had just disarmed his 22nd postal bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gentle Prodding | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...drunk caught a glimpse of the rumpled, hatless man entering the hotel and shouted: "Why, there's old Henry! He looks like a herring." Heaving round, the drunk padded through the side door into the empty lobby of Cedar Rapids' Allison Hotel. Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace came through the main door. The drunk grabbed Henry's limp hand and cheerily pumped it. Wallace gave him a sour look, yanked his hand free, and retreated to the hotel barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THIRD PARTIES: Unhappy Warrior | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Suddenly, at one of these halts, a blue Ford station wagon hove in sight, coming down from Konitsa. Out of it tripped a hatless, trim figure of a girl wearing woolen stockings, bobby-sox, a grey, fur-trimmed coat with an emerald bracelet peeping from the sleeve. "Hail, Boubou-lina!" bellowed the bishop.* The girl was Greece's blue-eyed, curly-haired, blonde Queen Frederika...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Glimpses of a Battlefront | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Hopes. The newsmen were waiting on the liner's aft veranda deck, shivering slightly in the 39° cold, when Panyushkin, hatless and inconspicuous in a long blue overcoat, hove into sight in tow of a Cunard pressagent. When he spotted the group, he fled to a lower deck. The reporters followed, and cornered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Shark at Bay | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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