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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What we have to search for," Peró concluded, "is the well-proportioned man." The implication was obvious: let the world take a good look at the well-proportioned Peronista...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Well-Proportioned Man | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...learn. Plenty of music has been written for the lute (more, Suzanne believes, than for the harpsichord), but she found it written in a complicated notation called "tablature." The instrument itself was a little complicated too. Famed Guitarist Andrés Segovia visited Suzanne last year, took one look at her lute and snorted, "Too many strings" (her lute has 19, Segovia's guitar only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Whirlwind at the Lute | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...time, it looked like a fine game to six-year-old Mike Rector and his two playmates. Whooping it up as cowboys & Indians, the playmates tied Mike up in a nearby garage, bound his feet and set fire to him. By the time his mother had smothered the flames, 70% of Mike's sturdy little body was deeply scarred. At Washington's Casualty Hospital, Chief Surgeon Joseph Rogers Young took one look and told Mrs. Rector that her son probably could not live until morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Five-Month Fight | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Deep in the Mojave Desert, across the San Gabriel Mountains and 70 miles inland from Los Angeles, lies a strange, unnatural lake. It is eleven miles long and four miles wide, with clearly defined shores and what look like beaches. But, except for a short time after a rare desert rain, the lake has no water. Its smooth and precisely level surface is cement-hard dark-red mud. Its one surface craft is a weathered wooden dummy battleship, built long ago as a bomber target. Above it, in the bright desert sky, thunder the real craft of Muroc Dry Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man in a Hurry | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Adventure in Baltimore (RKO Radio), like a leisurely look into the family album, is good for some drowsy amusement and one or two chuckles. Set in the 1900s, it describes the misadventures of a rebellious young woman (Shirley Temple) who believes in women's rights-especially the right to vote and to paint the nude human figure. Expelled from school for her outlandishly radical notions, Shirley returns home to disgrace her kindly clergyman-father (Robert Young), outrage her boy friend (John Agar), and throw the whole neighborhood into an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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