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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...platitudes (e.g., "In European countries where there is wild inflation the value of the native currency is constantly dropping") and his soap-opera similes ("When the sun came up, the Vardar Valley looked like a young woman in a transparent white negligee standing in the morning light rubbing the sleep out of her eyes"). But criticism should not perturb bearded Bob St. John, whose faith in Tito is matched by faith in his own powers as a philosopher. "The moon," he muses, his travels over, "moved in her slow, inscrutable way across the heavens. . . . Nature has a great mystic purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tito in C-Major | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

Farmhouses in the Stowe-Mansfield have distinguished themselves as economical and comfortable places to stay for the man who both refuses to sleep in the snow or patronize high-priced winter resorts. Accommodations can be made at both Youth Hostels and private homes through the Stowe-Mansfield Association at Stowe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardy Ski Enthusiasts Can Curtail Vacation Expenses | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

Devoted Hope fans will be sickened, and all others put to sleep, after ten minutes of this witches' brew of poor vaudeville and worse dialogue. For the womenfolk, der Bingle fights his way gamely through two or three songs whose only distinction lies in the fact that they are all composed of the same four notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

...home to sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come Back a Man | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...diminutive size compared to other major trail-entwined slopes in Pico Peak in Rutland, Vermont. There are an alpine lift and a rope tow hauling for two open slopes and one trail. The open slopes, though short, are sleep and difficult, and provide good proving grounds for slalom and schuss techniques...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Long Summer of Labor Makes East Large Winter Sports Drawing Card | 12/18/1947 | See Source »

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