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...heat was the news most of the week almost everywhere in the U.S. It was hot in the South, hot in the Southwest, hot in the Midwest, hot and humid as a Finnish bathhouse along the Eastern Seaboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: It Was Certainly Hot | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...weather: Variable cloudiness and continued warm and humid with occasional afternoon and early evening showers. Highest temperature will be in the middle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dutch, French Disagree on Issue of Germany's Economic Recovery; Truman Poised with Tax Cut Veto | 7/18/1947 | See Source »

Helpful Steelman snatched a glass of water, proposed a toast "to His Majesty, the King of England"; Sir Frederick replied with a toast to the President of the U.S. Then the guests left the dreamlike luncheon in the cool seventh-floor dining room for the humid heat of Washington's streets. Said one: "It was awfully nice, but I haven't the damndest idea what it was all about." Said an Administration leader, veteran of many high-pressure capital lunches: "A luncheon without a motive is rather refreshing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Fog | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Cubans), photographers put her through endless retakes in the humid cabin, until she fainted. Again & again, she told her "own story." (Sample quote: "I was in bed alone every night I was away from Jack.") Correspondent James Desmond of the tabloid New York Daily News gravely reported that her shipboard life was not all ecstasy, but "something too unglamorous for the fragile fabric of illicit love." (The headline: TIGHTWAD LOVER HAD ME SWAB DECKS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Satira, Tirana & Mee | 5/5/1947 | See Source »

...Soldiers (and civilians) were generally fit and efficient even after five continuous years in hot, humid areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Midday Sun | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

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