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...charged businessmen $200 a page for eulogy, $50 apiece for a picture, then sold copies for $5. Last winter he set out to raise $100,000 for a statue to Negro soldiers of World War II. That time he had to back off from the tree with an empty pail-Seattle's Negroes complained that the project was not their idea and wanted nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paying Proposition | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...Maria, mediums "materialized" Dr. Luiz Gomes do Amaral, who died 19 years ago. The patient waited, fully conscious and quivering. He felt clammy hands on his body, a tingling scratch on his abdomen. A soft voice reassured him that he would feel no pain. Water splashed in a pail by his side as if an invisible surgeon were washing invisible hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Spectral Appendectomy | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...were possessed of seven devils and a Trotskyite. They often sing loudly in They Met in Moscow. But the picture's lyrical ebullience, its naively intense people, its fresh landscapes combine to make something rare in cinema-an unaffected pastoral comedy, spontaneous as a freshet, natural as a pail of warm milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Though in the past eight weeks the Red Army has recaptured countless acres of rich wheatland, its bulk still remains in enemy hands. Not until 1944, and perhaps later, will the little man's dinner pail be well filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Bread,Toil and Victory | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...India Office in London plunked the fizzing bombshell in a pail of water, announced that the law will be revised to fit the punishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: 26 Stands Fast | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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