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...Listless. In Chicago, a South Side butcher asked OPA for a ceiling-price list, admitting he had nothing to sell but would like something to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...early weeks of listless campaigning, the confidence seemed well-placed. There were no fireworks, no weighty speeches, no burning issues. Amiable Ed Thye and his running-mate, gubernatorial candidate Luther Youngdahl, toured the back country, slapping backs, shaking hands, remembering faces. In the Minneapolis Tribune polls, Thye's popularity climbed: from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Touch & Go | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...whom Franz Werfel portrayed in his best selling novel. The supporting roles are over-acted; the speakers try to convey in each line all the emotion and conflict of the play with the result that the audience is deluged by a flood of bombast that leaves it reeling and listless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Song of Bernadette" | 3/22/1946 | See Source »

After he left, the companion C-54 that newsmen were to ride had to be trundled into the hangar and thawed out. On the bumpy, six-and-a-half-hour flight to Kansas City, they played listless poker, worried about the weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sentimental Journey | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...game marked only by listless, sloppy play, the Crimson Varsity stumbled to a 40 to 20 win over a game but hopeless Coast Guard five before a crowd of 300 at the Indoor Athletic Building Wednesday evening. The preliminary game went to the Cadet Jayvees...

Author: By Stanley J. Friedman, | Title: Sluggish Crimson Varsity Tops Coast Guard 40-20 | 12/14/1945 | See Source »

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