Word: inge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...
Russia's Andrei Vishinsky had thumped indefatigably, through eight weeks of U.N. meetings, for Moscow's version of "peace." His loudest bang, echoed by ing" noisy from whacks the at Western Communist "war-monger-propaganda machine around the world, was a proposal for a five-power non-aggression pact...
...loudest cries of pain were heard in Britain itself. The government last week raised the price of nonferrous metals and of such humble objects as pots & pans. The first predictions of a 5% cost-of-liv-ing rise shot up to 10%. The trade unions were having Sir Stafford Cripps on the carpet, demanding wage boosts. The Tories charged that devaluation could have been avoided but for the Socialist government's mismanagement; Laborites replied that it was not so, asserted that they had devalued rather than cut Britain's welfare program and permit unemployment. Said one Labor leader...
What perfect Time-ing! Have TIME [Aug. 22] in my hands with the nice remarks about me as I am celebrating my' birthday. By the way, I am not 26, I am 24 (the studio told me to say). Time marches on, but not, for me. Thank...
Thomas Mann, grey eminence of expatriate belles lettres, set an old pot aboil-ing again when he returned to his native Germany. After receiving the city of Frankfurt's Goethe Prize, he planned to go to Weimar, in the Russian zone, to accept a similar honor. "We who fought Naziism on German soil for twelve years," huffed the Mainz Allgemeine Zeitung, "think that those who invited Thomas Mann to a public festival in Frankfurt were badly advised...