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...Room with a View. In Washington, U.S. Public Health Service officers pondered the request of a law-abiding house wife, living smack on the Vermont-Canadian border, to import her 24-year-old parrot from her cramped Canadian kitchen to her spacious U.S. living room, found that the bird-quarantine laws (effective in 1930) were not retroactive, told her to bring the bird across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 15, 1945 | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

Into Paris last fortnight and smack into the worst tangle in World War II reporting strode squarejawed, battle-seasoned Brigadier General Frank Ulbert ("Honk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Honk's Cleanup | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

This, the ninth of the Whiteoaks novels, goes back to 1850, when Adeline ("Grand ma" of Jalna) is a bride, an unruly Irish minx whom callous readers will want to smack in earnest as her husband threatens to do in fun. Adeline and Captain Philip build their new home in Ontario, begin raising their now famous family, and otherwise provide one more variation of the story pattern familiar to thousands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recent & Readable, Oct. 30, 1944 | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Whatever happened in the World Series would be an anticlimax. For the first time since 1908 the American League pennant race had gone smack down to the wire; on the last day of the season, after 153 games, the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Browns were even Stephen, with 88 wins and 65 losses apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Streetcar Series | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Ever So Humble. In Philadelphia, Joseph Coia, a deserter from a Navy ship stationed in Brooklyn, was undone when he gave his draft board a home address smack in the middle of the U.S. Mint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 2, 1944 | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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