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The Gazette pays its easygoing, underpaid staff a top of only $50 a week. In the tiny newsroom, up a cobwebby staircase in the Gazette's old building, there are not enough typewriters to go around so the staff takes turns writing stories. It leans heavily on loyal volunteer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: George Washington Read Here | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Newly elected Senators will find Chaplain Harris' prayers more formal than Presbyterian Peter Marshall's. Dr. Harris leans toward the literary, with rhetorical embellishments. Sometimes he even prays in verse. Sample:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayers for the Senate | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Isn't It Romantic? (Paramount) leans heavily, for inspiration, on such Broadway musicomedies as Oklahoma! and Carousel. The idea is to give the wholesome nostalgias of small-town U.S. life a coat of sophisticated varnish and, if possible, a new lungful of life. As it turns out, the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Communists profess to believe that a group of "capitalists and militarists" who dominate U.S. policy want war. Henry Wallace repeats this dangerous lie. Even a few British officials believe that the U.S. Government leans toward the idea of a "preventive war" in the near future, before Russia gains in relative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: HOW CLOSE IS WAR ? | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Next day Bob agreed, thought he would retire from decathlon competition, the undefeated champion. That didn't mean he was through with athletics: it was in his blood. In his senior year of high school this year, he was captain and fullback of Tulare's championship football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Boy | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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