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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Full Time . . . "From the very hour he was taken away in the black of night from his home, his flock, his aged mother, Cardinal Mindszenty became the victim of torturings and druggings that put him beyond the reach or realm of human help. It was he himself who said to me, when he was the honored guest here less than two years ago, 'My enemies can take from me no more than my life, and that has already been given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: REBELLION TO TYRANTS . . . | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Stocky, brown-haired Robert Proctor, the 23-year-old team leader, was not the sort to walk away from trouble. Handy with his fists, fluent in Texmex Spanish,* he had been one of the most promising rodeo riders around Tucson, Ariz, before he went south to help stamp out aftosa. He had handled plenty of tough situations; he figured he could handle this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Ambush in the Plaza | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Susaeta claims that if it weren't for the dollar shortage he could sell $500,000 worth of Holsteins to Chileans alone. Chile has done as much as it could to help. This year it raised the permissible limit on dollars for purebred imports by 100%. Unfortunately for Salesman Susaeta, he has already almost filled the resulting $100,000 limit, and still has eleven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Los Holsteinos | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Bouncy Betty Mutton, playing hostess at a birthday party for Victor ("Beautiful Hunk of Man") Mature, lent her celebrated lung power to help him blow out the candles. Later on, she let it be known that in a forthcoming movie she would take a fling at the role of Ophelia, in a strictly jive version of Hamlet. Sample lyrics, written for her by Frank (Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition) Loesser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 14, 1949 | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Fans in Leipzig. At a cost of $300,000 per month (furnished by the U.S. military government), Heimlich runs RIAS with the help of a big staff that includes three other Americans and over 600 full and part-time German employees. There are a few spot commercials. "If it weren't for the blockade," says Heimlich, "we could get enough advertising to make this a paying proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Der Unheimliche Mr. Heimlich | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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