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Unlike his fireballing predecessor, the late William S. Knudsen, C.E. hates to make snap decisions, likes to sleep on the hard ones. He seldom relaxes. When he does, he likes to tell stories from his vast fund of them, though his wife Jessie sometimes protests: "Oh Erwin, not that one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Forty-Niners | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

The Passionate English. The Book of Costume also clearly documents how greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: To All Appearances | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

One day last week, in a Quonset-hut reading room on the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin, every seat was taken. It was exam week. Girls in neat sweaters & skirts (the wartime sloppy-joe style was out), men in open shirts and dungarees were giving the books a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The First Hundred Years | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

Snows of Yesteryear. Looking at the latest arrivals is often like looking at yesterday's skirts and hats-they appear more "dated" than the ancient wimple or the crinoline. Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes is still fresh as a daisy after 300 years, but who now hums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Familiar? | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

CROOK IN SKIRTS

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Headline Hunters | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

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