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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Geoffrey earns $60 a week. They live in a pleasant, tree-lined suburban road at Heston, in a house with three bedrooms and two living rooms. Geoffrey hocked himself to the ears to buy the house. Before the war, it would have cost $3,800; as it was, it cost $9,600. Geoffrey put down $400 saved from his war pay, borrowed $4,800 from a building society and another $4,400 from an uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How People Rise & Fall | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Explorer's Return | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Last year, in the luxurious hotel in Zurich where they had gone to live, Sophie Lehar died. At first the broken and ailing Franz spent his days and nights sitting motionless in a chair in his room. Last month, when he was given a blood transfusion at his Bad Ischl home near Salzburg, word spread that he had died. Said Franz: "Hardly ever before was there a man whom the press was so eager to eliminate." But his strength was indeed ebbing and, one day this week, at 78, he followed Sophie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Count of Luxemburg | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...appraisal of his individual virtue, the U.S. citizen thinks pretty well of himself. No less than 91% asserted that they were "honestly try[ing] to live a good life," with 44% of these declaring that they were conscious of the spiritual struggle "almost all the time." On this score, many admitted that the going is tough; a majority thought that it is harder to love one's neighbor now than it was in the time of Christ ("Today it's every man for himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Americans & God | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

...central figure gives it the dignity of classic tragedy. Welles has kept the claptrap, but his Macbeth is no once-honorable soldier whose muddled aspirations trap him into a crime against himself (the murder of King Duncan, in the play, also destroys the murderer's ability to live with himself). Orson has robbed the play of tragic impact by substituting a conniving heel who kills as he climbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 1, 1948 | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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