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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dandified John Taylor was musing over the fashion findings turned up in the current issue of his magazine Tailor & Cutter. The sprightliest of all British trade papers, outspoken Tailor & Cutter (circ. 16,000) has been scolding the sloppy dressers of the world since the 1860s when it found that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Clothes Make the Communist | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Madame Sun, who is an elder sister of Madame Chiang Kaishek, "withdrew" from politics in 1927 as a gesture of solidarity with the Communists in their break with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. She spent two years in Moscow, then returned to Nationalist China. She remained frankly hostile to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Leaning to One Side | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Justice over Ice. Last winter a white trapper who heard the story reported it to Mounties at Cambridge Bay. By plane and dog sled, two policemen went up to investigate. They found the guileless Eskimos-including Eeriykoot and Ishakak -perfectly willing to talk. The police arrested the two friends, exhumed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Aided Suicide | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Miss Arizona, trim (5 ft. 4 in., 106 lbs.), brunette Jacque Mercer, a rancher's daughter from Litchfield, was crowned Miss America of 1949. She won over a field of 52, after preliminary victories in the bathing-suit division and talent class (she wowed them with a dramatic reading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 19, 1949 | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

Few fundamentals of the game escape attention in the 244 pages of Leahy's book. Virtually the only omissions are description of his new huddle (the players facing the line of scrimmage) and his new T with two quarterbacks squatting behind the center. Rival coaches will learn more about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: T-Secrets | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

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