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...Disturbing Sound. Thackrey sliced 43 names off the swollen editorial payroll (250), pared production costs, boosted circulation by 20,000 to a 370,000 high. In three months, the Post started to make money. But as the Post moved into the black, Mrs. Thackrey was increasingly disturbed by the way Thackrey's editorials moved toward the Red line. Instead of being a "liberal democratic" spokesman, the Post was editorially pro-Wallace and anti-Marshall Plan, critical of U.S. policy and sympathetic to Soviet policy. Thackrey spoke at the pro-Soviet Waldorf-Astoria Cultural Conference (TIME, April 4), and printed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Family Trouble | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...morning of the semifinals, Gonzales awoke with his left ankle sore and swollen. He paid no attention to it, waded through ex-National Singles Champion Don Mc-Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Indoors & Out | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...refugee-swollen Shanghai a child collapsed on the steps of a building, too exhausted to unstrap the baby she carried on her back. As she slept, clutching a beggar's cup in her hand, the picture she made was a picture of Nationalist China itself. Last week the bad news that poured into Chiang Kai-shek's tottering capital would have exhausted even the strongest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: High-Flying Terms | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...picked up. It lifted 50 feet into the air before the towline snapped. A week later it,happened again with a new glider. Two more airmen were left stranded. By Christmas Day, the C-47 survivors had been down for 16 days, and the original seven-man group had swollen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: And Then There Were 13 | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Looking for Bargains. The people of Canada had ended World War II with swollen savings accounts. Now high prices had rubbed down the swelling. People wanted to hold on to what savings they had left, if not for a rainy day, then for cloudy days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Flattening the Curves | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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