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...story was going around London last week: two Russians were discussing World War III. Said Ivan: "By 1952 we'll have the bomb and the first thing to do will be to knock out Britain. Five bombs in five stout suitcases should do the trick-one for Liverpool, one for Manchester, one for Birmingham, and two for London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Trick | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Rotarians let them down. Staid, stout and respectable, they ignored the hotspots, loosed not a wolf whistle. Festooned with cameras and shopping bags, they took the funicular to Sugar Loaf mountain, gazed at the Christ of Corcovado, swarmed into the curio shops to buy butterfly trays and carved knickknacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: But Nice | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

GEORGIA: Harvard Club of Atlanta: Richard A. Stout '29, Candler Building, Atlanta...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Club Head Asks '48 To Join Locals | 5/25/1948 | See Source »

...Stout, stern-faced Jesuit Riquet seems to Parisians almost a one-man revival in himself. Each Sunday during Lent-even when the warm promise of spring brought crowds to the sidewalk cafés and the banks of the Seine-49-year-old Father Riquet filled the cold, damp, dark interior of Notre Dame to capacity with the power of his preaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Reawakening in France | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...zone, next to picturesque Fisherman's Wharf, foreign shippers may unload, transship, sort, grade and indefinitely store their merchandise without putting up bonds or going through other costly red tape. Only such goods as are brought into the U.S. are dutiable. The zone will be surrounded by stout wire, and patrolled, to prevent smuggling. Los Angeles fears the zone will lure so many ships to Frisco that it is hustling to get a zone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Free Frisco | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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