Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, after arranging to continue the supply of copies of TIME for the U.S. Embassy staff in Prague, TLJ waited to see what would happen to the newsstand copies of TIME'S March 1st and 8th issues, carrying accounts of the Communist coup, and the March 15th issue of LIFE International, which had a story on Prague's famed, freedom-loving Charles University. Word came on March 8 that TIME was banned for keeps from Czechoslovakian newsstands and that LIFE would henceforth be censored for "antiCommunist" content...
...TLIman, recently returned from Warsaw, saw almost no foreign publications on the newsstands there except Russian magazines and newspapers. When he inquired about TIME'S four Polish subscribers in Warsaw (there are 20 others, all members of the U.S. Embassy staff or of American relief organizations), he found that one was a leader of the Socialist party who had left the country, another had died three months ago, the third was abroad, and the address of the fourth was a destroyed building...
...Council was, as usual, deadlocked. For two hours, Russia's Marshal Vasily D. Sokolovsky kept being disagreeable. Then, suddenly, he rose. "The Control Council," he said, "no longer exists as an organ of government. . . ." He walked out of the room, followed in a body by his 16-man staff. Said General Lucius D. Clay: "A deliberate discourtesy...
...like a good time to quit. He would stay on as Michigan's athletic director, and he had picked his successor: Benjamin G. (Bennie) Oosterbaan, 47, a Michigan football immortal, three-time All-America end. A native Michigander, hulking, jocular Oosterbaan has been on Michigan's coaching staff ever since he graduated...
Burbank, Calif.'s semiweekly News, which has a four-man news staff, suspected that it was missing some of the town's vital events. Last week, in a front-page notice, it begged: "If you are born, marry, have a baby, die, or some other accident happens, please let us know-not that we give a darn, but most of our readers have a lot of curiosity...