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"These issues produce revolutionary types that must have the old bearded filibusteros spinning in their graves. Their headquarters are not in tents in the bush but in smart city clubs and luxurious suburban homes. A good example is General René Picado, defender of the Costa Rican government, a fat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

A meeting took place in the small hours of the morning. Communist Barbi began with elaborate politeness: "Priests are all right in a church, but their concern is with eternity, not with time measurement." Then suddenly he lost his temper: "Hand over that money!" Nello Checchi, a rotund, jolly Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Anti-Existentialist. Like many other Frenchmen, Sébille was "profoundly disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Intimatism | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

The buccaneers were gone from the Caribbean; the corsairs of Barbary had long since walked the plank; but the Jolly Roger had not been furled for good.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Yo-Ho-Ho & a Carton of Butts! | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

They were off in the $10,000 La Salle Handicap at Detroit's Fair Grounds. Up in the press box, jolly George Krehbiel raised his big binoculars and began telling the television audience what he saw.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: George's Race | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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