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...almost the first time on a vacation he did virtually no paper work-only one White House pouch left the base during the week and it contained routine documents. There were nightly motion pictures at the cottage, but the President, no movie fan, seldom stayed up to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President's Week, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bark & Bite | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Neogy dropped in at Nehru's office in New Delhi, plumped on the prime minister's desk a pouch containing 815 letters. In English, Sumiko Kanatsu, a girl pupil in Negishi primary school, wrote: "At Tokyo zoo we can only see pigs and birds which give us no interest. It is a long cherished dream for Japanese children to see a large, charming elephant.. Can you imagine how we want to see the animal?" Said Masanori Yamato of Seisi grade school: "The elephant still lives with us in our dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Charming Elephant | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Within hours after that, everything about the trial but Judy's purse-which seemed to have grown to the size of a mail pouch-had been forgotten. Even Archie was drowned out in the uproar which ensued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Inside the Purse | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

...Havana den. Among the evidence was a coded letter which indicated that a Cuban government official was mixed up in the big-time drug traffic. Last week after he stepped off the plane from Lima, waiting detectives nabbed Rafael Menacho Vicente, 55, Cuban consul to Peru. In his diplomatic pouch was a package containing two pounds of cocaine, worth around $10,000 in the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White Goddess | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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