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Going down grade making 90 miles an hour When his whistle began to scream (Whoo! Whoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Let Freedom Ring | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Like slugs from a Tommy gun, the words stuttered out of Chicago's WBBM: "They take this 90-pound pressure hose and shove it up against your spine and . . . keep on giving it to you until you scream bloody murder." A scared kid was describing life at the state training school for boys at St. Charles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Dead End Talk | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...twelfth day of the battle for Iwo Jima, only three men were left of his 32-man platoon. Then, from Iwo's craggy, ridge-locked plateau came the whee-ee-eet-whee-ee-eet of the moaning Minnies.* There was a moment of blackness, a scream, and then silence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twelve Days of Battle | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

Despite Boston sportscribes like Dave Egan, who continued to scream editorially about what he called "the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvards. . . here in a corner of the country where college (athletes) are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs," the Crimson athletic situation was looking up this past year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burdened But Unbowed, John Harvard Faced Peace Again | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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