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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 »

...correspondents left the White House, they took a look at the south portico. Work had already begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back-Porch Harry | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

James Caesar Petrillo cannot see germs, at least not very well, but they do not fool him. He knows there are armies of them all around him : hairy ones with mil lions of eyes, wiggly ones with transparent heads, sloppy ones shaped like tomato sur prises, stiff ones which look like piccolos in aspic. He never forgets that they are coming at him, morning, noon & night. But he is not intimidated. He fights them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Pied Piper of Chi | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Actress Martha Vickers (see cut) displayed knee-length stockings to be worn with the New Look. Except for being held up with elastic instead of by a roll, they were much like the "roll-your-own" stockings U.S. women wore back in the roaring, short-skirted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...pattern. Johnny, the hero, is 21, shy, inexperienced, friendly, the sort of person to whom good-natured drunks confide their life histories, because he is too reticent to relate his own, too sympathetic to shut them up, and too polite to razz them. Like Eugene Gant in Look Homeward, Angel! and like a thousand other intellectuals in American fiction, he thinks in a scrambled poetic prose-The memory of her face had the time of sunlight upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alabama Town | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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