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...victorious driver saw it all. He turned back, headed for the Oldsmobile and hit it a great side-swiping blow. The Olds caromed off the curbing. Two tires flew into the air. Proud as a victorious fighter pilot, the little man tooted his horn and drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Let Yourself Go | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Ramadier, usually a mild and vacillating man, faced the Communists like an enraged billy goat, his grey hair rising in two horn-like spikes. Cried he: "I will fight this through to a finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crisis | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

...Conant have been on speaking terms with the proprietor of the shine parlor-newsstand strategically set on Massachusetts Avenue opposite Widener's back door. Felix Caragianes is not the commonplace sort of man you would expect to find commanding a battery of bootblacks: in the wide grin behind his horn-rimmed spectacles there is a contagious adolescent exuberance which has put the purchase of a morning paper on a personal basis for a generation of the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/6/1947 | See Source »

Togliatti is no sawdust Caesar. His manner is easy. His face has a studious look behind horn-rimmed glasses, with only a faint ironic hint of the trouble he has seen or is causing. Like France's Maurice Thorez, he is one of the few Communists with a smile-a smile that is somewhat sarcastic around the edges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Caesar with Palm Branch | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...combat. When his troopship docked in Scotland, he stood in the bow with his golden cornet and played The Blue Bells of Scotland, sweet and lovingly. Then he broke into half a dozen low-driving hot choruses. One witness said: "They like to never got that ship docked. That horn held up the war." Jimmy kept Bix's golden horn in his pack when he landed in Normandy. One night, at a U.S.O. show, he met a girl named Marion Page, billed as "England's Queen of the Swing Piano." He got himself put on detached service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Like BIX | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

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