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From the editors of '47, the contributor-owned "magazine of the year," came the confession of the year. "Up to now, '47 has let everybody down," admitted a postcard from the editors to all subscribers. "Instead of being notable, it's been flat, dull, ordinary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stick With Us | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...first 41 days in the U.S., Bobby Locke had won two of the three tournaments he played in, against the Hogans, Sneads, Demarets, etc. The galleries flocked after him: he looked like a picture postcard of a St. Andrews golfer; he doffed his baggy white cap in acknowledgment when the cheers were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: African Wonder | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Postcards & Turtledoves. As the 278-year-old process* ended in the Holy City last week, Roman citizens had a field day with the first batch of pilgrims they had seen in years. One old Swiss woman with a strange silver headdress covering her huge bun of white hair got a 100-lira note from a moneychanger in exchange for her 100-Swiss-franc note (worth more than 20,000 lire). Postcard peddlers got rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Swiss Saint | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Swift Completion. In Washington, the Interior Department mailed a penny postcard to a man in nonexistent "Harrisia," N.J., got it back 56 years later. In Yonkers, N.Y., repairmen found a bundle of postmarked, undelivered letters in the railroad station, turned them over to the postoffice for delivery-17 years after they were mailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 12, 1947 | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Ballots for '47 Class Elections will reach resident Class members in this afternoon's mail, the Student Council announced last night, stating that postcard ballots were sent out two weeks age to '47 men not in College at present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '47 Ballots Reach Class Members in Mail Today | 3/25/1947 | See Source »

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