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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trade News. In São Paulo, Brazil, the Paulista Pugilistic Federation, meeting in conference, was forced to halt proceedings temporarily when the session turned into a free-for-all fist fight...
Watching, one observer found it an astonishing spectacle-"a dress parade, not of the few, but of the million ... in which you could not distinguish the rich from the poor." The observer, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, had spent half a lifetime observing the world's wars and truces, its generals, its despots, and its sad and patient masses. On the steps of St. Patrick's, she thought...
Gloomy Old Dev. In Dublin this week, before the rebuilt post-office building on O'Connell Street, Pearse's challenge was read once again. It was answered once again by the roar of cannon. But this time the guns were firing orderly salutes. Ireland was formally a Republic. By the External Relations Act (passed last December and proclaimed this week) it had severed its last direct tie with the British crown. For the first time since Pope Adrian IV, 795 years ago, gave the island to England's King Henry II, Ireland was independent...
...year-old Odorizzi, this was the last straw. Last week he quit and went off to his Wisconsin mink farm. A day later, Vice President Arthur Romer, after 32 years at Ward's, also quit. Then Avery got the resignation of Vice President Albert O. Steffey, retail store boss who had been with Ward's for 21 years. Steffey went home and opened up the bottle of 1811 brandy he had been saving for the occasion. With their departure, Sewell Avery snapped: good riddance; all three had been part of the "very real conspiracy...
Little Women. A romantic remake of Louisa May Alcott's tearjerker; with June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Margaret O'Brien (TIME, March...