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...were led down a hazardous set of 20 slippery stairs without hand rails. The sight in the hold was like a charcoal drawing of Inferno. The brilliant sun filtered through grillwork, throwing sharp lines of light and darkness across the refugees' faces and their hot, sweaty, half-naked bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: In Palestine or Never | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...stories record brief episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ugly Moments | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...Manchester Guardian decided that the time was ripe for - testing the age-old theory that curry is cooling. "It brought tears to the eyes," he reported after consuming a heaping plateful of the hottest variety, "and certainly the external world seemed cool for a time compared to the inferno raging within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: What Is So Rare | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...commission. Both wanted it made up of a small group of small, disinterested states. Said Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan: Britain cannot properly be "at times in the witness stand, and then . . . with the jury." Retorted Yugoslavia's Sava Kosanovic: "Dante puts neutral opinions in the Inferno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: On the Record | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...captain is a capable four event man who has improved with each performance this year. He will be one of the four Crimson entries in the famous "Inferno" race down Mount Washington this weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Ski Squad Chooses Taylor as Next Year's Captain | 4/8/1947 | See Source »

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