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CUBA'S PERIPATETIC PRESIDENT-ELECT Carlos Prío Socarrás, who had already received the full treatment in Mexico (TIME, Aug. 9) and who plans to visit the U.S. after his inauguration in November, turned up in Guatemala City. He and Guatemala's President Juan José Arévalo found a mutual bond in their distaste for the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Nicaragua's Anastasio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: The Open Road | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...worth waiting 70 years for. I have much the same feeling as that expressed by Mark Twain after receiving the Doctor of Letters honorary degree from Oxford University: "I feel as if I had received an official emancipation from ignorance and vice . . ." After reading TIME's gay précis, I confess that I felt no sense of departure, but rather the distinct conviction of arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...capitalism" and establish "harmony" with Russia). His purge of the press provoked the first open resistance the new regime had encountered. The government announced that all Socialist publications would be closed down this month when the Social Democratic Party "merges" with the Communist Party. At the plant of venerable Právo Lidu (People's Right), 55-year-old Social Democratic Party organ, 500 newspaper workers assembled in a protest rally. Shouts of "Strike!" went up. Social Democratic Deputy Premier Zdenek Fierlinger, who hurried to the Právo Lidu plant to try to smooth things out, was received...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Roses for a Ghost | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

Even after success came to Claude Debussy with his Pelleas et Melisande and Prélude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, the bearlike composer helped support himself for nearly ten years by scribbling pieces for Paris journals. A collection of his musical criticisms called Monsieur Croche, the Dilettante Hater (Lear; $2.75), long out of print in the U.S., was republished this week. Music-lovers who admire Composer Debussy may not always agree with Critic Debussy-but some of his judgments are as luminous as his music. For his critical 'dirty work and malicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dilettante Hater | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Harvard, Yale, Navy, Pr'nt'n, Penn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Boxscore | 5/27/1948 | See Source »

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