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Asked to disclose some of the details and idiosyncrasies of their private lives, the editors sounded off like everyday American citizens. None admits to being a tightwad, but 40% admit that they are definitely extravagant. Five swear they have green eyes. Three out of four say they dress "so-so," and you seldom catch them out in dinner clothes or tails. Like most big city dwellers, 71% pay rent for their homes, and 40% own cars. The rest live in the suburbs and pursue suburban hobbies on their own time. They go to the movies and theater four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...Arms, No Armor. In Southampton, England, Army officials required U.S.-bound war brides to swear that they had no guns or ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...thought UNO wanted about 300 acres." Cried J. David Finger, operator of a flying school at Westchester Airport: "I got chased out of Floyd Bennett Field when the Navy took over. I got chased out of Idlewild when LaGuardia wanted it. If I get chased out of here I swear I'll go to Mexico." A dubious housewife, who guessed UNO wouldn't want her 100-year-old house, asked: "If I stay here could I keep on being an American citizen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Those Americans! | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Concierges and shopkeepers asked their intellectual betters what Existentialism means (few can answer, but many try). In the overcrowded metro a working man has been heard to swear at a neighbor who shoved him: "Species of an existentialist!" At one of Prophet Sartre's recent lectures, an overflow mob of 2,000 was turned away, a small riot occurred, and women swooned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Existentialism | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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