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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quaint old Printing House Square, home of the, London Times, is the closest thing to a shrine that journalism has built. For 163 years its editorial sanctum has been a cradle for Olympian thunderbolts, and its correspondents, often better informed than Whitehall's diplomats, have helped shape British policy as well as interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Rumble of Thunder | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Reluctantly, Coach Ryder canceled three of Gil Dodds's races, including the New York Athletic Club's Baxter Mile, and sadly told reporters that the Iron Deacon had probably "run the last indoor race" of his career. But Ryder hoped to get Dodds back in shape to win the outdoor 1,500-meter Olympic championship at London this summer, before he retires to take up preaching fulltime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dodds Mumped | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Spectacular" demonstration of University sentiment in the shape of a full-scale puplic rally early in March will climax the program of the new Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, student chairman Vincent P. Moravec '50 announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peabody Leads 'Save ERP' Rally in March | 2/19/1948 | See Source »

...Hope. He sees no hope in U.N. as it is now, calling it "a weak league of sovereign, armed states preparing for war." As his ideas took shape, he framed a program. He wants: 1) an agreement among all nations to surrender their arms to U.N., retaining only a force big enough to keep internal order; 2) a U.N. police force to defend all nations from aggression; and 3) an Assembly acting as the world's chief legislative body, with a Security Council acting as a Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: In a Drawing Room | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

...takes a lot of integrity and a lot of finely disciplined inventiveness to understand and respect the spirit of a true story, to stay absolutely faithful to it, and to give it shape and edge as drama and as popular entertainment. The makers of Northside had all that it takes and then some. Honestly and resourcefully filmed, the picture was shot, for the most part, against the Chicago backgrounds where the actual events took place. The sound track, as cleanly intelligent as the camera work, deserves a special Oscar: except in the dives, where instrumental music is proper, practically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 16, 1948 | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

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