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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Post and the weekly Nation, but they had a different reason. Forrestal had stirred them up by wanting to put Germany back on her feet, as essential to European recovery. He had enraged them in the Palestine dispute by urging that the U.S. be mindful at the same time of Arab friendship. As Secretary of National Defense he stoutly defended this policy as necessary to protect the U.S.'s Middle East oil supplies and its vital chain of Middle East air bases. His critics did not give him credit for that kind of reasoning, whether it was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Washington Head-Hunters | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...death, which shocked the University and the literary world with its suddenness, ended an association with Harvard that began in 1927 when he came here as a graduate student. In 1946 he was appointed to the Boylston Professorship, one of the youngest men ever to hold that post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Spencer Funeral To Be Held Today In Christ Church | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

...week's end, the flu (and the hangovers) were still far from under control. Sneezing, snorting Frenchmen speculated about where the flu came from. "I think," said one housewife, "it is an experiment in Russian bacteriological warfare." Others recalled that the post-World War I flu, which supposedly started in Spain, had been known accordingly as the Spanish flu. This one, Frenchmen were sure, had crossed over from Italy. They promptly called it la grippe Italienne. With an acerbity that boded ill for European unity, Italians in Paris retorted by calling it influenza Francese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Whose Flu? | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...friends of Jimmy Conzelman were not sure what "normal" would prove to be. In the last 30 years his recreations had included such items as flame dives from the high board. He was also an actor (Good News), a record-making ukulele player, author of Saturday Evening Post articles and public speeches (his 1942 commencement address at the University of Dayton* was read into the Congressional Record). During World War I he won the middleweight boxing title at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, later played and coached pro football with five clubs (Decatur, Ill., Rock Island, Ill., Milwaukee, Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refugee from Football | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Siren of Atlantis (United Artists) may bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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