Word: seconds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, the second most important return of a dead hero in Jewish history; the most important, said Ben-Gurion, occurred 3,300 years ago when the Jews carried Joseph's casket back to Palestine from their Egyptian exile. But after the ceremony was over, most Israelis seemed too busy building their new country to be emotional about the prophet's return. The attitude of brisk irreverence was expressed by one Tel Aviv paper which ran a cartoon showing a man kneeling before Herzl's coffin. "Why do you weep...
...another speech, on the anniversary of V-J day, Mayor Chen Yi revealed a striking historical fact, hitherto known only to some of the more eager Communist scholars. Said he: "On this day, four years ago, Soviet Russia defeated Japan and brought the second World War to a conclusion...
...grandson, Charles Tennyson, supplies much material never published before; Alfred hated to talk about them and his son, Hallam, had to scant them in his standard memoir of 50 years ago. Nothing, however, could so testify to Tennyson's magnetic power as this veneration by the second and third generations of his family. Charles, a distinguished lawyer and civil servant who is now 70 himself, remembers his towering grandfather in old age, shuffling downstairs in the morning and extending his great withered brown hand to the children to kiss...
...this month in a Hertfordshire cottage after 15 years in the U.S. He has been a top reviewer of TIME'S Books section since 1942, before that, edited the book department of the New Republic and scanned movies for the National Board of Review. A Sea Change, his second novel (his first, Chalk and Cheese, was published under a pseudonym in England in 1934), goes to show, as history has shown, that a good literary critic may also be a good novelist. Not only has Dennis performed the rare feat, for an English novelist, of bringing American characters back...
...trouble. Macfadden Publications, biggest tell-all in the business (True Story, True Romance, Experiences), refused to convert to the new comic format when Fawcett did. Thereupon the bottom dropped out of Macfadden's market: after netting $224,883 in the first quarter of 1949, it reported a second-quarter loss of $11,635. Admitted Macfadden's Dwight Yellen: "No doubt about it-the confession comics have hurt our field...