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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ABSOLUTELY CONVINCED GUERRILLA ARMIES COMPOSED OF DIEHARD COMMUNISTS AND CRIMINAL AND LAWLESS ELEMENTS INTENT ON DESTROYING EVERYTHING GREEK WHILE THEY PILLAGE, RAPE AND PLUNDER. PATRIOTS OF RESISTANCE MOVEMENT LEFT GUERRILLAS WHEN GREECE WAS LIBERATED, AND COMMUNISTS TOOK OVER, FOR THEY KNOW COMMUNIST AIM IS TO DESTROY GREECE, MAKE HER A COMMUNIST SATELLITE BY ESTABLISHING RUSSIAN DOMINATION OF MEDITERRANEAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1949 | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...dollars should go to socialist Britain. "In England," he declared, "if individuals are unfortunate enough to have lost all their hair . . . they obtain free toupees." The Republicans' ponderous Gene Millikin, whose bald dome glistens like a submerged boulder in a Colorado stream, rose in mock dismay: "What would make a man so depraved that he would want to cover an honest bald head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Chipping & Chiseling | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...starter, the President signed a bill creating a $10,000 post, Under Secretary of Defense, for his chief administrative assistant. But armed-services committees in both houses of Congress and their gold-braided pals in the armed forces were still balking at bills which would make the Secretary of Defense the absolute boss of the services as well as their titular head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tough Talk | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...been dead for years, Jenny goes right on popping in & out of Cotten's life. What is more confusing, she is a few years older every time she appears and soon reaches an age where it is respectable for Gotten, who is aging only normally, to make love...

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

...first philosopher to make truth pay, and like Jesus I went among the sinners by getting my articles printed in the Tory and Hearst press . . . William Morris died weeping for the poor, I'll die denouncing poverty . . . The girl Leigh [Actress Vivien Leigh] was round today [and] I thought of walking . . . with her to attract attention to myself . . . Was [Rilke] a poet? ... I am not certain whether Picasso is the name of the latest car or a horse . . . Burne-Jones was a great artist . . . [Joseph] Conrad [once] challenged me to a duel. Unfortunately, [H.G.] Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of Wealth & Very Old | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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