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Over and above the businessman at the "Bee" School, there is a small smart set who, doffing the green eye shade for a few brief hours, wield the quill for relaxation. The result is four pages of chatter and patter, in the entrepreneurial manner, labelled. The Harbus News, Get it-Har....bus? Well, these journalists didn't like the monicker any better than the next Better Business Bureau...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Local Wall Street Journal Bankrupt in Quest for Name | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...Antonio, it was 94° in the shade. Lennart Strand, "Hägg's Rabbit," who had come over from Sweden to show U.S. runners how a mile should be run (TIME, June 17), didn't bother to warm up. "This heat," said he, "I don't like it." Under a sizzling sun he used the first quarter of the race (the National A.A.U. 1,500 meter) to unlimber, and his time for it was a sleepy 65.4 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slow Starting Swede | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...touch the ground, he swung past Les MacMitchell, king of U.S. milers. At the end, MacMitchell was 30 yards behind. Strand's time, after his slow start, and on a slow track was 3:54.5 (equivalent to a 4:12 mile). Mission completed, Strand went looking for some shade and some ice cream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slow Starting Swede | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

...miles from Belfast on the shores of County Down, the 49 were laughing and shouting again, playing ping-pong and tennis, swimming, milking cows and feeding chickens. Some tended vegetable gardens, taking particular care of the garlic crop. Others, exhausted from play, lay red-cheeked and panting in the shade of verónica shrubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: We Irish Jews | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Government and the Communists. A Kuomintang party boss said the odds stood 49 for peace and 51 for war. A shade more optimistic, Sun Fo, President of the Legislative Yuan, rated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: The Edge of the Cliff | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

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