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...mine") -but many wryly replied, "How many years?" In Italy, New Year's Day ushered in the new constitution and, officially, the new Italian Republic. The flag-raising ceremony at the Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Year of the Mouse | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...been so well managed; Ginny had even been wormed into the New York Sun as a society columnist: "The William Benjamins 2nd (Odette de Brunière) hope for a telephone during the New Year." And last week her debut had the hairy Daily News mewing about "a pale blue moon" and "pink mist." For her coming-out party, there was a blaze of pink candles, a bed of pink azaleas, baby spots playing on the potted plants, a hamburger stand and an ice cream stand, champagne ("all French") in five-foot jeroboams, Moscow Mules* in copper souvenir cups. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts for Today | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...central plain of Burma, Forrester had gone through the motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burma Girl A-Waitin' | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Farmer George Thome Bennet's eldest daughter is a pale, 19-year-old girl named Iris. The last three of his twelve children never lived long enough to get names. Farmer George, said his wife in a complaint charging her husband with murder, drowned each of them at birth in a bucket of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Life with Father | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

...great scenes of the play-the dim, enormous interior of the Roman trireme, the wreck, and the struggles on machine-tossed waves, pale moonlight, the cataclysmic race, with two real chariots, each drawn by four Arabian horses, wheels rumbling and swaying, the incredible collision and Ben-Hur's triumph-all this excited and continued to excite the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come Back a Man | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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