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When a plain U.S. citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ordeal of a Bard | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Chicago's blue-eyed, sallow Superintendent of Schools William Harding Johnson lives in the six-room lower half of a two-family house in the Rogers Park section of Chicago's North Side. Last week a dynamite bomb shattered his rear doorstep. It was, said the police bomb squad, "no amateur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dynamite in Chicago | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

Lateness of season is no business handicap to Vladimir Horowitz, the greatest box-office pianist of the day. Last week this sallow, dynamic son-in-law of Arturo Toscanini closed his season with a hot-weather recital in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Critics found his playing below his usual brilliant standards. But the box office took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vladimir of Kiev | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Shigemitsu aged, became sallow and bitter. He met one-legged U.S. Author Ellery Walter, who had mastered the use of his artificial leg so perfectly that casual observers never suspected he had it. Shigemitsu took an envious liking to Walter, learned from him how to use a wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: How to Use a Wooden Leg | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

After duty as fire house, carpenter shop, and lumber room the building was chosen in 1788 as the birthplace of the Harvard Medical School. Its hallowed amphitheater became the carving place for sallow cadavers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLDEN KEEPS NAVAL STORES | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

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