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...correspondents in Korea "drink too much [and] for the most part are incapable of a serious thought even when sober. These likable but stupid Americans send their articles to the newspapers which pay them. Their opinions on the Korean situation will form the opinions of millions. It is disgusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Parallel Lines | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Sober Mood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Your analysis of the public's sober mood about Korea [TIME, Aug. 14] is all bone and sinew, no fat. What's more, after much traveling lately, I feel sure it is in essence accurate. I think I detect in our country a fine latent dignity and seriousness which I was frankly not so sure of a few months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1950 | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...even this tremendous sum was based on a gamble that total war was still some distance off. "If we propose to prepare for a major war which might possibly develop within two years," said Texas' sober, veteran Congressman Mahon, then the U.S. would have to take on, "at the very minimum, a $100 billion annual business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Billions & Billions | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...repertoire of Ivy League marches, the other has four medleys. For some reason John Finnegan's recent Princeton arrangement has replaced the first two albums' Leroy Anderson Medley; I prefer the elder one, but that is probably nostalgia for the square foot of rug. Finnegan or Anderson, drunk or sober, the re-issued album is precisely what you'd expect--a good...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 9/1/1950 | See Source »

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