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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trim brunette who looks younger than her 38 years, toured Europe as a child with her mother, a professional pianist. Her lawyer husband, Carleton Hadley, left her a widow at 33 with two daughters. She worked for Willkie in 1940 (once she left a note for her Roosevelt-supporting milkman: "No Willkie, no milkie") but she insists that she is really "a Democrat from way back." Her grandfather was a Democratic Congressman from Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VICE PRESIDENCY: The Veep Yields | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Egyptologists agreed, and turned up at 3 o'clock of the appointed morning just as the refugees from Paris' nightclubs met the first milkman in the streets. The two scholars were equipped with a pink parasol and a walkie-talkie. At the foot of the obelisk, Parisian firemen stood ready with a hook & ladder. The younger of the pair, Mario Fabre, climbed to the top of the monolith; the other, François Guinet-Chaplain, established himself at its base. The hours went by. A crowd began to gather. At 10 o'clock the crowd was thick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Outrage on the Obelisk | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Shirley Anne told her classmates about it, and her father, who is a milkman, mentioned it along his route. Last week-Holy Week-thousands of people who wanted to believe and thousands who were merely curious descended on Hawley Avenue and the two-story frame house with its artificial-brick sides. Some of the visitors knelt, prayed, and saw tears. Others, including newspaper reporters, said they saw moisture on the cheeks of the statue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: St. Anne's Tears | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Hard Times. In Niteroi, Brazil, a local milkman had a reasonable explanation for housewives who complained they had found tadpoles in the milk: "Normally I water the milk from the fire hydrant. Lately the water shortage has forced me to go to a creek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...election results led to other oversimplifications. Said a Dutch milkman, hitching up his leather apron: "I am glad -my horse will get more Marshall oats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Oats for My Horse | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

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