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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These talks and travels were part of an obvious pattern in which Russia spun a web of trade and friendship treaties about her satellites, while the satellites spun a web of treaties among themselves. The purpose: quick consolidation of an Eastern bloc to counterbalance the West's slow-starting "Marshall approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: This Way, Comrade Fly | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 7, 1947 | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Price and Ella Raines in a taut-spun murder melodrama (TIME, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...humanity that pulsates under the drabness of Sunnyside, a railroad-side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tabloid Angel | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

This week, against Pittsburgh's plummeting Pirates, 26-year-old Pitcher Spahn spun his tenth win, breezing through with six strikeouts. That put him one up on Cincinnati's smart Right-Hander Blackwell, two up on Cleveland's swift Feller, and halfway to every pitcher's goal-a 20-game victory total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Southpaw | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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