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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress passed and the U.S. President signed the Economic Cooperation Act, called by England's Economist "an act without peer in history . . . of inspired and generous diplomacy." What had been promised in the Marshall Plan became solid fact, and the U.S. moved into its massive counterattack against the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fighter in a Fighting Year | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...hard-digging newsmen were concerned, there was no more solid evidence that Duggan had had knowing contact with Communist espionage. There were indications that he had been friendly with a former State Department official named Noel Field, identified last summer in testimony by Chambers as a member of a Communist apparatus. The New York Daily News quoted Alger Hiss as saying that Duggan was a very good friend of his and that he was a "victim of persecution." Hiss later denied having made the statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Man in the Window | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Newcomer Betsy Drake seems to have studied, but not learned, the tricks and inflections of the early Hepburn. Her exaggerated grimaces supply only one solid laugh-when Hero Grant mimics them cruelly and accurately. In the past, Gary Grant has shown a talent for quietly underplaying comedy. In this picture, he has trouble finding comedy to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 3, 1949 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance at lectures and recitations. There were few electives; Latin, Greek and mathematics were the solid meat & potatoes of the classical course, and upperclassmen were also fed on rhetoric and mental and moral philosophy...

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

Adds Classicist Walter R. Agard: "Their determination to get something out of Wisconsin has been positively painful . . . A much more solid, substantial crowd than after the first war. They went after their problems hard, and not too optimistically . . . Uncertainty is the nearest thing to a common banner. They'd like to be assured, and can't be. That's part of the disillusionment...

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

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