Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the end of the war her men began to go home and pick up their old lives. One day, while three discharged G.I.s were engrossed in talk of reconversion problems, Miss Lace slipped out unnoticed, left behind a note of farewell: "I've gone back where I came from-I'll be there if you ever need me again. So long! Love, Lace...
...laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color in the dust and grime. After a day or two no one noticed...
Marshall dates his book 1912-14 and in a prefatory note says carefully: "I understand that the abuses so common thirty years ago no longer exist." But Schooldays reminded its readers that the Government's Fleming Report (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), urging that public schools admit Judy O'Grady's kids too, was still gathering dust...
...Disney. The pre-Columbian art of the Indians of Western Mexico had a freshness of its own; none of the stern beauty of Aztec forms or the glum formality of Mayan relics. When the Indians were not laughing at themselves, they were good-naturedly caricaturing someone else. The dominant note was exaggeration: humpbacks had overpowering humps; in erotic figures phallus outweighed...
...next day Moscow Pundit Vassily Voronin warned that Russia was "surrounded by capitalist countries and reactionary forces, and their desire to redivide the world may again produce armed conflict. . . ." China announced happily that Russia had sent a note promising to evacuate Manchuria by May 1. Canada revealed that members of the Soviet spy ring not only got money from Moscow but even got instructions not to take cabs all the way to their secret meeting places...