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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spokesmen for Albania and Bulgaria had been invited to answer amply documented charges made by UNSCOB (U.N.'s Special Committee on the Balkans). Instead of answering, the Albanian representative attacked the Greek government, saying that it cherished "mad" territorial designs on his country and that it had committed no less than 1,565 "armed provocations." Some of them, he added solemnly, were led by U.S. General James Van Fleet. Furthermore, said the Bulgarian spokesman, UNSCOB was a hand-picked group coached by the Greek "monarcho-fascists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Ritual Dance | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

When a fan heckled him as he skated close to the boards, Kenny unhesitatingly conked him on the head with a hockey stick. As the blood streamed, another spectator jumped onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Timber! | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...should bear the entire cost. As for federal pensions, 89% would rather install company plans than pay for a major expansion of the Government's Social Security program. Growled One Midwest manufacturer: "Our whole system is degenerating to the point where something for nothing is a fad . . . The mad scramble is to be one of the fortunate few ... on the receiving end . . . Union leaders are playing the role of a master of ceremonies on a giveaway program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Something for Something | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Orleans, it took people a while to get over the shock of Tulane's 46-7 drubbing by the Irish. Then everybody seemed to get mad at once. Coach Henry Frnka told friends he would cancel the scheduled 1950 game if he could. Last week Tulane announced that because of schedule difficulties it was impossible to continue the series with Notre Dame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Those Irish | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Certain Restlessness | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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