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...ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: No Middle Way | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

...such is the case in "Along Fifth Avenue." It may always be the case since apparently the only ones to complain are the reviewers who have to say something anyhow. There is one really hilarious sketch in which she appears as a salesman for a torrid perfume whose motto is "When Nature Fumbles, We Carry the Ball." In most of the other skits she has little to do: in one she stands behind a restaurant counter and pushes a pie in a customer's face; in another she soberly walks across the stage in a straight line, carrying a pair...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Along Fifth Avenue | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Organization to Encourage People to quit Organizations was founded by the Rev. Howard W. Stone of the First Presbyterian Church in Franklin, Ind., in the hope that it would give people more time to go to church. The organization's motto: "Be a Quitter"; its password...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

That is a fitting motto for the Institute. It also describes the education of J. Robert Oppenheimer, who by all the standards of the market place is a well-educated man, and who by his own restless, relentless standards is still an apprentice, with 3 a lot to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eternal Apprentice | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...really like the candidate, they had to admire his streamlined press relations. The text of each night's speech was Mimeographed by the morning before; coffee and beef sandwiches were at hand in every press workroom along the way. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's motto was "Make it as easy as possible for them to get what they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Road Shows | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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