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That was last spring; now eleven-year-old Gerard has found a home-in Trogen, Switzerland. His face is freshly scrubbed, his pipestem legs are filling out on milk, fresh vegetables and meat. Gerard is one of the lucky first 29 citizens of Pestalozzi Children's Village.* By next year, the village will house 380 orphans from foreign countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Children's Village | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Iraq Parliament last week received an ironic motion for the establishment of an Arab national home-in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: Awkward Exodus | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...twelve months, U.S. citizens tossed off 190,000,000 gallons of whiskey, gin, brandy, rum and cordials, tying 1942's national, post-repeal record for drinking. They had trouble at home-in Reno a record 8,590 divorce suits were filed; in Hamilton County, Tenn., there were five times more marital split-ups than marriages; all across the nation the divorce rate boomed to new levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Totals | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Limited Objective | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...General New will go fishing in Michigan; Secretary Denby will spend part of the summer in Michigan, also; Secretary Davis is expected back from Mooseheart, Ill., where he has been with his family, but may return there later; Vice President Coolidge (also a member of the Cabinet) is at home-in Northampton, Mass.,-with no apparent intention of visiting the capital for some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Aberunt | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

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