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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victoria, not keen on racing, always kept up the tradition of royal sponsorship of Ascot meets. She once asked the midget jockey Bell how much he weighed. Staunchly, little Bell replied: "My master says I'm never to tell my weight." (He weighed...
...West Bengal government had outlawed the Communists, but it could not outmaneuver them. "At a Bose rally I attended," reported TIME Correspondent Robert Lubar last week, "no party emblems were displayed and no one as much as whispered the word Communist. But the tenor of the meeting was clear. It was dominated by a huge, crude painting ridiculing Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. It showed him wearing a jeweled crown and a uniform with exaggerated epaulets. Under the portrait was scrawled: 'Down with British imperialism...
Last week, as much of the U.S. sweltered, people were humming a bouncy new jukebox favorite called Baby, It's Cold Outside. It was all about a girl who kept protesting that she had to go home and a boy who kept insisting that she stay. Outside, he warned, the snow was knee-deep. Queasy NBC first banned the lyrics as too racy, then decided they contained nothing provably prurient, and put the tune on the air. Baby hit the hit parade and began climbing...
Church inaccurately calls herself Catholic, that is, universal. The Roman Church claims to be the Church. This means that in her eyes there exist no other churches, but only sects ... If we do not profess allegiance to Rome we are out of the fold, no matter how much genuine religion enters into the texture of our life. We belong in the slums of Christianity...
...policies upon the nation . . . Rome has been particularly zealous in the fight against communism. But . . . consciously or unconsciously, she has never kept a clear distinction between communism as a system of economics, the materialistic ideology on which it thrives, and the pressure methods used to assure its triump. . . As much as we may dislike the economics of communism, we hold them to be a free matter of discussion, subject to democratic procedure...