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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night sea battle of Kula Gulf, which he watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific an icicle from the 33rd floor of the TIME & LIFE Building scored a direct hit on his head and laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Dwyer, nor his Republican-Liberal-Fusion challenger, Newbold Morris, could find any real excuse to call each other hard names. The Communist Party's favorite Congressman, shrill little Vito Marcantonio, had no real chance. There was no real issue. But the candidates were cartwheeling through a sort of political acrobatic contest, which provided wholesome free entertainment for young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fun for Young & Old | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Laborites enjoyed a few moments of high glee when conservative, ruddy-jowled Sir John Anderson said that he did not want to see the sort of events that followed World War I. Since Winston Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the time Sir John referred to, Labor members hooted and Churchill glowered at his shirt front. Herbert Morrison taunted both of them, and for a while Churchill and Anderson were popping up & down like marionettes to answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Grit & Tintacks | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...Socialists who are Burma's biggest political party, said: "We are so disrupted that 300 armed men can take any place except Rangoon itself. In the last two years there is scarcely a town in Burma which has not been seized at least once by rebels of some sort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: The Trouble with Us . . . | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Lamont Library just won't make an impression on the ambling Princeton invader should he chance to explore the Yard. The men from Nassau town are used to this sort of glorified bookshelf; they've got one three times as big themselves--and just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton's New Firestone Library Dominates Nassau Academic Plant | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

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