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...equalizer, was about the only thing that might upset Calumet Farm's powerful entry: Citation and Coaltown. They were such red-hot favorites that for the first time in 43 years no place or show betting was allowed. But, mud or no mud, as the field of six (smallest in 41 years) thundered by the grandstand into the first turn, Coaltown was out in front, bouncing along like a big brown tomcat. He had never been beaten in his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Arcaro Picks a Winner | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...read, "... I appreciate the vital . . . importance to Soviet security of acquiring the details of Anglo-American general strategy without delay. ... I have taken steps to ensure [my wife's] ignorance and, in view of her youth and political illiteracy, it is impossible for her to entertain the smallest suspicions. . . . [But] I suggest that the method of communicating by blank postcard should be discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpent in Uniform | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Fantasy is as you like it in any case. Some people have carped at Cocteau for 'inadequate' makeup of the Beast. if you want to believe, then the makeup of the Beast is of no interest; if you do not want, to the smallest item can destroy the illusion. Those who can appreciate fantasy will find in this Cocteau effort a masterpiece in the form, a work of chidlike loveliness and conviction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beauty and the Beast | 4/9/1948 | See Source »

...method has been to make receivers smaller and less noticeable. Maico Co., Inc. goes after women customers with receivers that look like earrings, costing $231 (TIME, June 16). Beltone Hearing Aid Co. was plugging a 5-oz., 3-in. by 2-in. amplifier as the "world's smallest hearing aid" (price: $167.50). The aid, said Beltone, used the same principle as the proximity fuse developed during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: Low Tone | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...another reach for uplift last week, the Diet's Cultural Affairs Committee hung oil paintings in the heretofore severely plain corridors and party offices of the Diet building. The largest party (the Socialists) got the largest picture, Tea Maidens. The Communists (four members of the Diet) got the smallest, Summer, a lady with a pink parasol. Said Committee Chairman Kanjiro Sato: "At first we thought the women members would create a quieting influence. But we were mistaken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: My Utmost | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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