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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a photographer tried to get LaGuardia to pose in a truckload of wheat, he refused, saying: "It'll hurt the wheat." "Won't it?" he asked, turning to Bell. "No," said Bell, "farmers often pack it that way." "How do you know?" LaGuardia demanded. Said Bell: "I'm from Kansas." "Well," LaGuardia decided. "I won't stand in it. It'll look silly." So he didn't stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...last 3½ months Zhdanov has led the pack in the literary-artistic purge directed against all "cultural deviationists" from Clown Karandash to Producer Sergei Eisenstein. He also signed (for the party, with Stalin signing for the Government) the highly significant agricultural decree aimed against the mass, illegal reconversion of collective farms into private holdings. To emphasize the importance of Zhdanov's twin tasks Stalin, ailing at Sochi on the Black Sea, let Zhdanov have the place of honor on Lenin's tomb (see cut) at the Nov. 7 celebration of the 1917 revolution. (A typical and revealing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: How To Wait | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...that it takes an audience roughly the first five minutes of the show to deduce what it takes Katharine Hepburn the gamut to figure out. At one hopeful point she does seem to sense her danger, and decides to give the whole thing up, but she stops to pack a bag, giving Alan just enough time to frustrate the attempt. This sort of thing goes on till Alan is about to drop a tremendous boulder on her head. At this point, it is fairly clear she understands that it's true what she's been hearing and thinking about Alan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/3/1946 | See Source »

FRITZ BARZILAUSKAS, although at 26 the oldest man on the Yale squad, still manages to pack his 220 pounds around the left guard slot with amazing agility. The most vicious tackler in the veteran Eli line, he plays in the middle of the five-man defensive foreward wall...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Biographies in Blue | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

...Maritime Academy brought a band and at least 1000 leather-lunged supporters to meet the Jayvees Saturday afternoon on Soldiers Field, but the noise couldn't drown out the strains of Crimson victory in the nearby stadium, or the 39-0 triumph closer to hand. Someone doubtless forgot to pack the team with the instruments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvees Romp Over Massachusetts Maritime Academy As Freshman Passing Attack Nips Brown by 28-7 Tally | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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