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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vanquished. In Quebec's gloomy Reform Club, provincial Liberals surveyed their shattered organization, at its lowest ebb in 50 years. Duplessis' victory had pushed any hopes of dominion-provincial tax agreement off into the dim future. Along with Tory George Drew's recent victory in Ontario and Drew's open bid for national leadership, it gave the Drew-Duplessis axis a new and potent meaning...
Four from Hades. The lowest zone, next the floor, is Hades, where lie the sepulchers of Lorenzo and Giuliano de Medici (they were to be flanked by four figures representing the rivers of Hades, which Michelangelo never got around to). Lorenzo's tomb supports the famed outstretched figures of Dawn and Dusk, and atop Giuliano's sprawl Day and Night. Symbolizing earthly life, the stone nudes lie heavy as lead...
...stars of the show-the presidential candidates-were not such bad actors as predicted. Taft surprised his critics (who had rated him the lowest of the candidates, telegenically) with earnest, honest, drily witty performances on two LIFE-NBC interviews. Dewey, at his best in a four-way press conference (newspaper-radio-newsreel-television), proved that he had picked up stage presence. NBC ran a specially prepared MARCH OF TIME film of the governor in his younger, stiffer days, which showed that Dewey had changed much more than the part in his hair...
Willy Messerschmitt, who built airplanes for the Nazis but claims he never really liked the Nazis, half-convinced an Augsburg denazification court of his dislike, got off with a fine of 2,000 marks as a Nazi "follower"-the fourth and lowest grade offender...
This is no unsupported claim. Shortly after World War I, Wisconsin began offering frank sex instruction to most of its high-school students. As a result, the venereal disease rate among its drafted [white] men in World War II was the lowest in the nation: 6.3 per 1,000 as against 170 per 1,000 in some other states...