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Word: tales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frau Karin Loef, the city government's handy woman who has been aide to nine Remagen mayors since the war, told me: "Democracy, well it is rather like a fairy tale to most people here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...Horror. Mirror Editor Silves ter Bolam thought he had an exclusive angle, and took a chance to play it. On Page One, Bolam ran a three-column picture captioned: "Women Struggle to See Haigh Charged." Right next to it was a story headlined VAMPIRE HORROR IN LONDON. Its lurid tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wicked Character | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Finally, "Rudolf's Job," a tale about two German schoolboys, is pleasant enough. Perhaps Rudolf should have used that bucket of flour on Father Gerhart after all. As for the poems in Signature, they all seem to be well-written, particularly Anabel Handy's "The Hermitage," which contains one of the nicest similes I have ever seen. Signature must be commended for its policy of publishing this type poem and story...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: On the Shelf | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...Little Brat." Bevan was born 51 years ago in the Welsh hills which are slag-pocked and crumpled like a tattered old flannel blanket. The names of his brothers & sisters sounded like a Celtic fairy tale-Blodwyn, Myfanwy, Arianwen, lorwerth. There was nothing romantic about the Bevans' tiny four-room house with its sanded floor. "There were never less than seven of us in the house, and an invalid relative occupied one room," recalls Bevan, now the King's minister in charge of housing. He was an avid reader. As he trudged along Tredegar's streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Medicine Man | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...hurried to Mississippi on location to film William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, a novel about an attempted lynching. Twentieth Century-Fox was preparing Pinky, a story about miscegenation, and had in reserve No Way Out, a tale of a Negro intern. In New England, Louis de Rochement, the first to announce a project on the Negro theme, was shooting for Film Classics, Inc. a picture called Lost Boundaries, about Negroes who pass for whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sweepstakes | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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