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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Little Guy | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Also on the program is a very cogent and provocative "March of Time." Entitled "The Teacher's Crisis," it molds the usual facts, figures, speeches, and dramatic incidents into an unusually good documentary, portraying with unique clarity the malignant growth of trends such as the exodus of underpaid teachers from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/8/1947 | See Source »

Vastly different from MacVeagh is his colleague assigned to Ankara, Edwin Carleton Wilson, 54, who was also called to Washington. No specialist, he is a general practitioner in the diplomatic profession, which has been his lifelong career. During more than a quarter-century divided between faraway legations and duty at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Specialist's Diagnosis | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

With the addition of patrol cars and two-way radios, the policeman's job is becoming more and more a profession, the role of the Police Station more and more pervasive. But despite the record Harvard enrollment, student brushes with the Law have remained at a pre-war minimum and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

National Selected Morticians, Inc.. a "professional group" with headquarters in Chicago, considered the atomic age and was appalled. The average undertaker has probably never seen a Geiger counter, but it was obvious that he would soon have to face the problem of radioactive "remains." In hushed tones, on tiptoe, and with the little finger sympathetically but gracefully extended, as always, Mortuary Science, the magazine of National Selected Morticians, Inc., prepared the "funeral-service profession" for the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: File Quickly Past | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

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