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...Pipe Dream. In Washington, the War Assets Administration had a screwy suggestion for postwar use of "The Big Inch": a route for Texas jack rabbits bound on the hoof to eastern markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Bette Davis plays identical twins. As the Good Twin she falls in love with a pipe-puffing engineer (Glenn Ford). As the Bad Twin she steals him, pipe & all, marries him, manages to be spectacularly unfaithful. But the Good Twin stays staunch and true despite the Neanderthal attentions of an alarming artist (Dane Clark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 5/4/1946 | See Source »

...Teamwork by news agencies, radio networks and the U.S. Government to pipe cheap news into "neglected areas." Alternative: "Governments . . . will have to step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fight over Freedom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Byronic profile rising proudly above a pair of dandruff-laden shoulders, his uniform scarred with gravy. (In civilian life, McGovern modeled an otter fur hat by a Chinese Lily Dache at a formal dinner.) Once, smoking on Constitution Avenue, McGovern saw King coming. He stuffed the red-hot pipe into his pocket, threw King a salute-and scrambled down the street, his pants catching fire. Says he: "I lived in constant fear of courtmartial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Man about the World | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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