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...will go into the convention more or less neck-&-neck-with between 300 and 400 votes apiece. They are certain that Stassen will have less than 100. Stassen is not the first man who is regularly named as the compromise candidate. The vision of General Dwight D. Eisenhower stamped-ing the convention is also coming to look more & more like a possibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Man from Minnesota | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Aping the theorists' own gibble-gabble, Stabler said that the rise "disposed of surmises that [it] is merely a secondary move within a primary swing after testing double tops on a northeast course follow ing raising of a right shoulder in a southwest storm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: A Question of Identity | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...civic crusade. Local chambers of commerce, boards of health, Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs will march on the flies in close ranks. In northern Iowa a mechanized column of 40 former G.I.s is training with pressure spray outfits. They plan to hit Mason City on June 9, DDT-ing the whole town fly-less in two hours by the clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Flies on Iowa? | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Better to Buy a Guitar." In Moscow, though the sun was out when Marshall's plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Reunion at the Yar | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

They saw a fast-moving pageant of ritual dramas and folk plays, heard scratchy Ch'ing Dynasty blues and a half-dozen pieces by a "classical orchestra"-an ensemble that was ancient when Confucius was young. Though Broadway-farers made little sense out of the dancelike dramas, they liked the sword dance by Gardenia Chang, the gaudy plumage, rooster-strutting and extravagant simpers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hsi Chu | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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