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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LLOYD M. ST. OURS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Consuming Hunger. In Minneapolis, Gebhardt M. Moses sued an auto dealer for $30,000, declared that the suspense of waiting & waiting for delivery of his new car had given him ulcers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...seat twice, to be Congressman from another district five times, and later to become New York City's mayor for a record-breaking twelve years. His posthumous autobiography, The Making of an Insurgent, plainly reflects the weariness he must have felt as he and Writer M. R. Werner knocked it together last year during the final months of La Guardia's fatal illness (cancer). It covers the first 37 years of his life (1882-1919), from the childhood on Army posts (his Italian immigrant father was a bandmaster) through his early congressional years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Butch Remembered | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Foot & Mouth. In Ottawa, Parliamentary Law Clerk Paul M. Ollivier proposed that M.P.s be required to stand on one foot while speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...watched her cut an enormous cake. Then the headmistress, in a new flowered print dress, made a speech in praise of longevity ("Growing old is a delightful experience") and teaching ("A journey in the country of the mind"). Was Miss Madeira planning to quit? Said she: "I'm going to retire when the girls think I'm getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retribution | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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