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...early hours of election day brought nervous rumors: of masked bands hijacking voting boxes in Santa Rosa; of ink poured over ballots in Cavite. And there were some bloody facts: Governor Ramon Imperial of Camarines Sur Province was wounded by gunfire; a 62-year-old Pampanga supporter of Osmena was hauled from a jeep and murdered by machine-gun fire in a rice field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: New President | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...feet tall, and built like a halfback. His creamy tenor occasionally softens to a bedroom whisper, but usually it is roguish and rolling. As he sings, he twists and crumples a battered felt hat. That was how he began ten years ago in Paris' Bohemian cabaret Le Boeuf sur le Toit (The Ox on the Roof). Soon he was earning more on the radio and in the music halls than Chevalier. During the war he sang for French prisoners in Germany. He looks well-fed; as he explains it, "there is always a crust of bread for a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Sinatra | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...NAME WITHHELD) Poncey-sur-L'Ignon France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Sur vos genoux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Paris in the Spring | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...ready to talk, regally, about her love for democracy, about Sur, about herself, her dislike for totalitarian government. But she talks most easily about the growth of her love and knowledge of Argentina. Said she this week: "Before I only knew Buenos Aires province. Now I have discovered the rest of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

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