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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until young Bob Mathias (rhymes with defy us) came along, the folks in Tulare, Calif, (pop. 12,000) never had much to shout about.* When Bob became Olympic decathlon champ at 17, they let off a roar heard all over the county, gave him a noisy welcome when he came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Local Boy | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

In kicking off the 1949 campaign, Chicago got its chance to remind its citizens that it had pioneered in bringing the fight against VD into the open. Its publicity-loving Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, once dragged in Al Capone's girl friend for a blood test. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Knock-Out Campaign | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

As explained in the current Bulletin of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, such fears were more than justified. Robbers did make off with his mummy, and for good measure, or for fear of the Master's ghost, they smashed his reserve head as well. Dug up by archaeologists in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Reserve Head | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

As time went on, Meryon saw stranger things. His later cityscapes were ruined, collectors thought, by the introduction of monstrous birds and whales wallowing overhead. After he had printed etchings of two perpendicular boxes in which a man and a woman were padlocked to sleep standing up, and made a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Troubled Tinker | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Like any other news service, Tass, the Russian agency, has reporters in most world capitals. There the resemblance stops. Tass's chief clients are Russian newspapers, its reporters are frequently Communists, and they often seem more interested in keeping the Kremlin in formed than they do about making a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Freedom to Libel | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

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