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On a raised white platform in Delhi's Untouchable colony sat the Mahatma, cross-legged on a white cushion, a cooling wet white kerchief covering his bald head. Overhead glimmered a lone 80-watt electric bulb. Reluctantly he assented to the splitting of India. "What is past is past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Passage Home | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

But Gil Pitt was born & bred a mountain man. By the time he was knee-high to a fox pup, he knew nearly all there was to know about handling an ax and a rifle. He grew up long-legged and straight as a tulip tree, standing 6 feet 3...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: 55 Minutes from Broadway | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

May Day Dance. Herbert persisted. Finally he forced a vote on one amendment. He mustered only 31 of the Opposition (against the Government's 346). But he stuck to his popgun and in the next three hours forced 15 more voting divisions, kept the members trudging to & from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Sausage Machine | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

It was spring all right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Blossom by Blossom | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

New chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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