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Geologists, newsmen and stockbrokers were beating a path last week to the tent flaps of a prospector named Robert Campbell, on the chilly shore of Lake Superior. Seventy miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, he had just staked out Canada's newest uranium discovery. Even cautious officials in Canada's Department of Mines thought that his samples looked like "very high-quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Bonanza Revisited | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...hospital at Edmonton, doctors treated his skull fracture, set his shattered arm, put him under a metal-framed tent to keep the bed clothing off his frostbitten feet and knees. To his father (also an aviator), who had flown in from Washington, dauntless little Mike told what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Off the Highway | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...Angeles had been picked for Dewey's all-out attack on Communism. There, in the gaudy setting of the Hollywood Bowl, a line of chorus girls danced on stage, movie stars trooped to the mike, and searchlights and floodlights made an incandescent tent over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dogi Cligin & the West | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...Oklahoma City, Mrs. Clara Pyatt, who lived in a tent with her two children, started to build a shack with tag ends of used lumber. A dozen taxi drivers, some of them on strike, heard of her plight, built her a three-room bungalow in three days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Premature. The French handled for the U.N. one problem which literally camped on its doorstep-Garry Davis, idealistic son of U.S. Bandleader Meyer Davis, who renounced his U.S. citizenship in order to become a "citizen of the world" (TIME, Sept. 20). Young Davis pitched a pup tent across from the Palais de Chaillot. Gendarmes escorted him, somewhat forcibly, off the grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Les Onusiens | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

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