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Italy's studious Premier Alcide de Gasperi gave other Europeans a lesson on how to face an issue. In a two-hour speech to the Senate last week, he closed a furious week-long debate on foreign policy by aligning his country squarely behind the Atlantic Treaty. He made no concessions to either the 67 Communist Senators, who jeered as he spoke, or wavering members of his own party who are still afraid of provoking the Russians. He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Bridge Out | 1/22/1951 | See Source »

Direction, Yes. Arkansas' studious Senator Fulbright began his gentle probing. Did Wilson think that the administrative approach to mobilization was right -"Are we going in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: The First Call | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...misguided variation of the Amphitryon story. Jupiter (George Jongeyans) covets a young American girl on her honeymoon, while son Mercury (William Redfield) is under orders to snare her to Greece, and wife Juno (Charlotte Greenwood) is hot on Jupiter's trail down the slopes of Olympus. With its studious smut and clanging innuendoes, the whole thing is far more down-to-earth than even Jupiter's expedition would license. The librettists apparently fashioned their jests for audiences whose idea of sophistication is not believing in Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 1, 1951 | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...interest in symphonic music and the ballet. He had never been arrested for anything, had never been openly mixed up in left-wing movements. At 39, he was still a bachelor, still lived with his family. Neighbors had considered him a "good boy" when he was a child-quiet, studious, polite. They still did. He seemed completely wrapped up in his work in medical research at the Philadelphia General Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Man with the Oval Face | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Purtell admires the Radcliffe girl. "They're all studious," he says. "Sometimes their boyfriends get out of hand, but they eventually learn that they can't win," he declares, with unshakable faith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffe Quad Mischief Palls With the Years | 3/31/1950 | See Source »

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