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This paradox, and the propaganda piffle which surrounded it, was bound to baffle almost anyone in or out of this world. Even such worldlings as the U.S. Embassy staff in Paris were confused-Ambassador Jefferson Caffery last week found it necessary to summon them all to a special briefing session. How could you explain the situation to a plain American, or a Frenchman-or to a man from Mars? The situation was really sublimely simple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Briefing for a Man from Mars | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Shaw who had drawn $100 in Jefferson notes from his bank that morning, had only $68 left when he was apprehended...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cops Pinch Man For Donating $2 Bills to Students | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

South Carolina's coon-shouting Senator Olin Johnston, who stayed away from Washington's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner because his wife was afraid she might be seated next to a "Nigra" (TIME, March 1), announced this week that he would nominate Dwight Eisenhower for President at the Democratic National Convention. This brought up two questions which probably won't be answered until the week of July 12: 1) Could the convention be stampeded into nominating Eisenhower? 2) Would Ike accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Two Questions | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Master's Voice. Dumaine had learned his financial footwork from a master: Boston's late Thomas Jefferson Coolidge,* who dominated railroads, banks, and the Amoskeag mills at Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raid on the New Haven | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Died. Viola Allen, 78, turn-of-the-century stage favorite; in Manhattan. She made a hit in Shakespeare in the '80s, eventually played in almost everything, was a Charles Frohman stock company star and leading lady to Joseph Jefferson, retired in 1918 at the height of her popularity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

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