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Mohamed Ali Jinnah is a skillful political leader who cannot be bothered with economics. When Pakistan was still a Moslem dream, a correspondent repeated to Jinnah the Hindu argument that Pakistan would not work because the proposed state lacked coal, industry and other economic resources. Answered Jinnah: "Why should they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Sick | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Random samplings of comments made by both graduate and College students reveal that they feel the lack of skillful cooking makes food generally unpalatable. That improvements in quality would prevent continued food waste is the consensus.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll shows University Backs Wheat Conservation Plan by 2-1 Majority | 12/6/1947 | See Source »

Medea (freely adapted from the Greek of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers; produced by Robert Whitehead & Oliver Rea) seemed to many first-nighters last week what it seemed to Macaulay a hundred years ago-Euripides' greatest play. To be sure, Euripides didn't have much to do with last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Play in Manhattan | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

Compared to the neat way American record companies have produced Mozart symphonies and Beethoven quartets in a series of performances by the recognized authorities in those fields, the treatment of Romantic piano music has been little short of chaotic. In this extraordinarily rich and varied field, there has been no...

Author: By Otto A. Friedrich, | Title: The Music Box | 10/21/1947 | See Source »

Died. James Melvin ("Jimmie") Lunceford, 45, topnotch Negro bandleader famed for his skillful and studied renditions of warm to hot jazz; of coronary occlusion; in Seaside, Ore.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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