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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bomb for Grandeur? Thus began the Saint-Sylvestre rush. Paris headlines blared: WORLD'S GREATEST DISCOVERY. Down the highroad from the capital poured reporters and would-be Forty-Niners of the Atomic Age. In a Saint-Sylvestre pub simple peasants talked grandly: "Our village will make France powerful again. We, too, will have the bomb. They say you can run trains with this uranium. Cure the sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Saint-Sylvestre's Forty-NIners | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Jack Benny's wife Sadie, known to radio listeners as Mary Livingstone and to some recipients of her checks as Mary Benny, asked a court to make the "Mary" legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Leaving for the island of Stromboli to make a film with Italian Director Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman was puzzled when an interviewer asked what the picture would cost. Between $300,000 and $500,000, she thought, but "I'm poor on numbers. I always forget a zero or add a zero where it counts most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: No Place Like Home | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...back & forth nervously before each pitch, frequently wastes his power by swinging late. His fielding, too, still lacks polish. "All I hope is that they won't expect miracles this first year," warns a Tiger coach. "I'll bet you right now he'll make half a dozen throws to the wrong base early in the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Last week a group of geriatrists (specialists in diseases of old age) met in Philadelphia to compare notes. The bad news: the medical profession has not found-and probably never will find-a pill to make a middle-aged man feel 18 again. But the doctors are by no means pessimistic about other phases of their work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Enjoying Old Age | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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