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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently our latest request for a permit to admit TIME to Argentina, where TIME has been banned for the last 21 months, was refused. The occasion of this refusal seems to me to be as good a time as any to review the events leading up to it. They fit a pattern that has become familiar to TIME-LIFE International, publishers of our overseas editions, in its business of distributing TIME to anyone who wants to read it anywhere in the world...
...French readers, Paris' Le Jazz Hot review was trying to explain the artistry of U.S. Bebopper Charlie ("Yard-bird") Parker. Excerpt...
...matter what his courses-on mortgages, notes and bills, evidence or crime-he gave them all with the same intensity. Phi Beta Kappas have flunked them and law-review editors have gotten Ds. Once he gave such a stiff examination that 31 out of his 35 students failed it. Later, the students gave him a dinner and presented him with a medal. On it was etched the motto of Verdun: Ils ne passeront pas (They shall not pass...
...Unified Germany. The next day, America's crack occupation troops bade their commander a military farewell. On the vast parade field at Grafenwohr, once a training ground for Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, 11,000 U.S. soldiers snapped and wheeled through a 90-minute review. A battery of 105-mm. guns barked a 17-gun salute. From a jeep the 52-year-old general stood stiffly and watched the display, a hint of tears in his eyes. Overhead, in a brilliant, cloudless sky, 60 Thunderbolt fighters formed a gigantic C-L-A-Y as they roared past, and then...
...purpose of the petition to the Deans for power to review charters of all Harvard organizations, according to Council President Robert L. Fischelis '49, is "to make sure that by amendment these organizations have not changed their charters from what the Council and Deans had approved in earlier years...