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Censors observed that soldiers, overcome by emotion, usually wasted the first of their three minutes in hemming & hawing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: The Line Is Busy | 7/23/1945 | See Source »

After nearly two months of hemming & hawing, Italy had a new Premier (Ferruccio Parri, a man of the North), and a new Government (representing six parties instead of four). Last week Premier Parri led his 20 Ministers into Rome's Quirinal Palace, where each swore before Crown Prince Umberto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Common Man | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Shops & Salons. Smith agreed. With Daily News Secretary-Treasurer William R. Powell hemming & hawing in for a third of the deal, Smith promptly formed his Mission Nurseries & Florists, Inc. He bought out two flower wholesalers on Los Angeles' Wall Street, opened a retail shop nearby. Then he hustled west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIAGE TRADE: Flying Flora | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

In a modest apartment on the eleventh floor of the Latino-Americana apartments in Mexico City, Jules Romains is at work on the 13th volume of Men of Good Will. He has been writing his vast serial for 13 year. He writes in longhand on his mahogany desk in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction's Maignot Line | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Three months ago it seemed hopeless. The swanky Berkshire Symphonic Festival, after much hemming and hawing, had called off its annual summer festival in the western Massachusetts hills. Gas rationing and tire conservation made bucolic concerts risky business. But Conductor Koussevitzky was in a dither-partly at the thought of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Miracle in the Berkshires | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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