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Arrival in Babylon. "Never once did I feel like a stranger. Most New Yorkers speak as bad English as I do. They all understood me perfectly well. I tell the customs man I am a Brazilian professor proceeding to Vassar. One said to me: 'O.K., Prof. Got any Brazilian stamps?' I gave him some. He did not look at my baggage. They have a high opinion of professors in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Polite, Happy Yankees | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

Bigart was warned to employ the strictest konspiratsia, "that favorite Balkan term for secrecy." Next day the stranger brought a guide, a stocky, studious youth named John. He told Bigart to buy a ticket to Rome and get an Italian visa, to make things look legitimate, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mission to Markos | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...Hilarius is a trim 23 foot job, and according to Smart, is one of the fastest hulls in the country, costing a cool $2, 250. His father is no stranger to top flight racing, having brought his boat "Melody" in fourth in the 1942 World Championship Star meeting. He also holds the Bacardi Cup for a victory in Havana...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: Smart Navigates Star In Bid for Olympics | 5/20/1948 | See Source »

...Welcome, Stranger. American Broadcasting Co., third largest (267 affiliated stations) and only privately owned major U.S. network, will soon let the public invest in it. To help pay off a $4,000,000 bank loan and raise money for television expansion, Chairman Edward J. (Life Savers) Noble will sell 500,000 shares of stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Fielder's Choice. In Pacific Beach, Calif., Stan Picard lost a wheel off his trailer, watched it roll into the hands of a stranger who quickly loaded it into his car and drove away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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