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...Jam on the Face. There were, he continued, three uncontradicted facts: 1) that Chambers had in his possession copies of secret State Department documents; 2) that these documents were all dated in the first three months of 1938; 3) that all but one of the typed documents were copied on the Hiss typewriter. With all "that country bumpkin stuff," the defense attorney had refuted none of these points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE JUDICIARY: Weeds, Roses & Jam | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...charge the horse. The riders of the jeep were quick to approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting animal would carry the proud red-grey-and-gold colors of La Punta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Home of the Brave | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...could hardly have squeezed better. And on opening night last week, a jam-packed audience in the Lemonader's little opera house in the basement of the (Greenwich) Village Presbyterian Church let him know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Very Moonish | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...pathetic relic of the war. He was made of sterner stuff. Wherever he looked, the crying need was for more houses. Whole sections of Diisseldorf, Cologne and Nurnberg lay in rubble, and every day more refugees from the East poured in to swamp West Germany's already jam-packed buildings. Frankfurt alone this year hopes to put up 100,000 dwelling units. Quietly Willy Messerschmitt went to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Into Plowshares | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Deep Purple. Sometimes, enraged at a sloppy recitation, he would bang his heavy books together, jam them under his arm, and stalk out of the room in the middle of class. More often, he would turn purple, angrily adjust his eyeshade, or ferociously tap his forehead until his rage was spent. "You should be ribbon clerks!" he would bellow at his students. "Ribbon clerks behind a counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Exit Growling | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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