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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James E. Maher, who wanted to return to Ireland but hated to leave the modern American comforts of his seven-room, prefabricated house in Pinehurst, N.C., solved the problem by knocking it down, packing it into 59 giant crates, and shipping it off to Ireland ahead of him. ¶ Annoyed at her gentleman friend, Evelyn Panagakis, 31, of Peterborough, N.H. got into a car, and made three runs on his parked automobile, smashing in the front, side and rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kabuki to the Kremlin | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...scattered among 176 tribes from Assam in the northeast to Madras in the deep south. One-fifth of India's first settlers live in the hillside jungles, many still dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis have sunk to the level of coolies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Kings of the Jungle | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Unfortunately, says Einstein, the coercion has not lessened since he was a student. "It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Holy Curiosity | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Bingham's attitude towards polofits into the current pattern of such monstrosities as the anti fox-hunting bill, recently introduced and narrowly defeated in England. The stout modern attitude seems to be: since I can't tell a martingale from a halter, I don't see why anyone else should be able to or want to. In our triumphal march towards socialism there are alternatives: lovel everyone down to the common man and play polo. Would anyone care to exchange some old spurs for a pair of sneakers? Black Beauty

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polo | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

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