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Word: opened (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when "Wild Bill" Evjue was an interventionist and Communists were not, Reporter Parker publicly denounced his boss as a warmonger. Editor Evjue denounced back, and later in an open letter to the C.I.O., he called Reporter Parker "the Communist leader in Madison," added "I defy him to publicly deny it." Though Parker did not deny it. Evjue did not fire him. In 1948, he promoted him to city editor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mud for Muckrakers | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...they were equipped with plenty of shells (No. 6 shot for ducks plus a few No. 2 in case geese came in low); some of them used kazoolike duck calls on which they quacked a bedlam of food calls. Mostly it did little good: the ducks sat on the open water far from the shore line, safely out of shotgun range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ducks Away | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Last year, after conducting at Scotland's Edinburgh festival, Rafael Kubelik sent word to Prague (where members of his family still live) that he was not returning to open the 1948-49 season; he would play Czech music, but play it elsewhere. Since then, he and his wife and three-year-old son Martin have made their headquarters in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At Home Abroad | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Feather Beds. The ICC's 6-to-4 decision split the commission itself wide open. Though ex-Chairman J. Haden Alldredge voted for the raise, he warned that the railroads "certainly may be pricing themselves out of the market." He thought that the roads would be smarter to cut their fares and go after more business, and cited the example of the Central of Georgia, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas, and the Southern Pacific, which had boosted traffic by doing just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Red Signal | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

That essential freshness had been carefully guarded by an American painter named DeWitt Peters, who went to Haiti six years ago to teach English and remained to open the first and only art center in Port-au-Prince. To Peters' surprise, Haitians flocked to the new Centre d'Art with pictures for his approval. Even more surprising was the fact that half the pictures they showed him were interesting. Peters supplied his protégés with painting materials, judiciously refrained from criticizing their work. Eventually he teamed up with American Poet Selden Rodman, whose Renaissance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: As a Cock Crows | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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