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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When newsmen heard of the meeting and took a look at the guest list, they thought they saw the ghosts of the little group of irreconcilables who kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations. There was some excuse for the parallel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Twenty Senators | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Security Council could look back on a sizable list of frustrations and failures. It could also note one current achievement: from Java, U.N.'s Good Offices Committee reported to the Council last week that the Dutch and Indonesians had at last agreed to truce terms. But the success was dwarfed by threatening new business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Anniversary Week | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

Broadway's Judith Anderson, hair-raising star of Medea (adapter: Robinson Jeffers), responded to a request by the Saturday Review of Literature for a list of her current reading. Besides the collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, Actress Anderson, who plays eight hard shows a week, listed one current novel, a couple of biographies, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage, the collected works of Charles Dickens, the collected works of William Shakespeare, James Joyce's Ulysses, the Bible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Statecraft | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...down and two to go, Vag thought as he marked up his calender. He circled two dates and ran an exclamation point down through his last exam. Looked at one reading list, but don't even remember where I put it. Vag pecked underneath his blotter and back of the beer cans on the window still. Have to go farther back than that, Vag mused, and started looking through his desk. Going to be one of those long nights again. Reading lists for Reading Period, went the phrase, but it still, wasn't too late if he hurried. He looked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

Phillips Brooks House heads the list of collateral groups with an amply furnished reading room where the students can obtain newspapers from their native countries or relax in an overstuffed armchair. Information concerning local activities is always available...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Holds Representatives From 65 Nations | 1/24/1948 | See Source »

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