Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...triumph was short; Perón no sooner fell than he rose again like Antaeus, seemingly stronger than ever (TIME, Oct. 29). Braden's confirmation as Assistant Secretary was before the Senate, and his critics set upon him in full...
...Spruille Braden, he could still speak to the Peróns. Last week, on Navy Day, he again denounced the Argentine "state of siege" which "permits a hoodlum with brass knuckles to strike the face of a young girl because she cries, 'Long live democracy! " In short, the Senate drubbing had not changed the bull. Braden had always been adept at stepping carefully, calculating just the china to be smashed. But the horns and the hooves were still there, and would be so long as he practiced what he had preached to Argentines: "The voice of freedom makes itself...
...March 12, 1932. In Paris, diplomats and common men moved in solemn lines past the bier of a fallen world figure, Aristide Briand. Across the Seine, in a room on the Avenue Victor Emmanuel III, another world, figure wrote three short notes. One of them ended: "Goodbye now and thanks. I.K." The big, round-faced man rose from his desk, smoothed out the unmade bedclothes, lay down, shot himself with a pistol just below the heart...
...midwestern gambling house will give ordinary bridge and poker fans a rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling hands stake $8000 on one roll of the dice...
...NIGHTS-Konsfanfine Simonov-Simon &Schuster ($2.75). One of the most ubiquitous young writers of the Russian war was 30-year old Konstantine Simonov. A crack Soviet war correspondent who generally turned up in the thickest fighting from Odessa to Leningrad, Reporter Simonov is also a successful playwright, poet, short-story writer, novelist. Days and Nights, his novel of the 1942 defense of Stalingrad, is more effective than most contemporary Soviet fiction because the Communist drum-beating is more muffled...