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Manhattan was richer, gayer, noisier than it had been since the days of Texas Guinan, the "Black Bottom" and the speakeasy peephole. The big spender was back, nightclubs were jammed and Broadway had never blazed so brightly. But the slim, jaunty little man who had been given star billing at the last big performance was no longer part of the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Late Mayor | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

...fish make noises under water? Well, said the Navy, that's interesting: perhaps some are noisier than others. To find out, the Navy made a "sonic survey" of underwater noisemakers. Some findings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Davy Jones's Sound Effects | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...York City's public-school corridors have never been zones of quiet. In the past three years, they have been even noisier because of a dowdy little Brooklyn civics teacher named May Quinn. The hot-tempered debate about her simmered up out of the public schools, splashed down over the Manhattan press. The consensus: May Quinn was not fit to teach civics to anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bigotry Condoned | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

...scientists had been noisier than their British brothers. But all had one characteristic in common: evangelically sure that something must be done, they were lost when they faced the political questions of what to do and how to do it. The atom, as Churchill and Bevin said, had not relieved statesmen of the responsibility for doing statesmen's work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICIES AND PRINCIPLES: Crackdown | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...political pot boiled higher, noisier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Stew Is On | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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