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...cold-blooded ruthlessness ... I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot . . . His smile of Siberian winter, his carefully-measured and often wise words, his affable demeanor, combined to make him the perfect agent of Soviet policy in a deadly world . . . Havoc and ruin had been around him all his days . . . How glad I am at the end of my life not to have had to endure the stresses which he had suffered; better never be born . . . Sully, Talleyrand, Metternich would welcome him to their company, if there be another world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Winston at Work | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...feet of him, hoisted up his right crutch and whacked him on the shoulder. That about ended the meeting. The committeemen agreed that they would support the regular Democratic nominees after the state's primary on June 1. But until then, Wallace supporters were free to wreak whatever havoc they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Near Zero | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Song for song, few of Tin Pan Alley's tunesmiths can match the havoc wrought by a gum-chewing Oklahoman named Jack Owens. He has an assist on a public nuisance of 1941 called The Hut-Sut Song, wrote Hi, Neighbor, a song which has become the nightly entering wedge of Pal Joey-type masters of ceremony the U.S. over. He composed for Red Skelton something called I Dood It, and in his own tenor voice has crooned the merits of orange drinks and frankfurters for singing commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: It Comes Easy | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

While praising Harvard's excellent record at a time when 'destructive pranks reach an all-time high," Dean Bender felt that the perennial spirit of havoc that precedes each Yale game demands a clarification of University policy regarding the unlimited use of spray-guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Suspension Punishment for Eli Vandalism, Says Bender | 11/18/1947 | See Source »

Councillor-at-large is not a full-time job, and thus his duties on the Waltham Council will wreak no havoc with Hansberry's tough Law School grind, for his only legislative task will consist of meetings every Monday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law Student Wins Waltham Council Election in First Venture into Politics | 11/6/1947 | See Source »

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