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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This proves that in the presence of an honest and intelligent man, the processes of democracy cannot be used successfully to destroy this Republic. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Preventive. In Boston, police found three-year-old Billy McConnell wandering the streets, skipped their usual treatment for lost children after reading the note pinned to his jacket: "Please do not feed. Thank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 24, 1949 | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Later, in a hospital, 20-year-old Gayle Keen angrily told another reporter: "I was lying there in the wreckage when I saw a man approaching, and I thought: 'Thank God, here is help at last.' Instead, he just leveled a camera at me, and bang! then he was gone." Presbrey's exclusive picture (see cut) made the front page of the Star and went all over the country by wirephoto. Hard-boiled Reporter Presbrey sent the girl a print of the picture and a message: "I'm sorry, but deadlines are deadlines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: St. Paul Prowler | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

Then, asking the Senate to join him, Barkley prayed: "Lord, in these days of uncertainty, we ask for and thank Thee for the boon of Thy guidance and direction. Endow us with wisdom and light to see the path of our duty, and courage to keep our feet within it. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Every Man's Prerogative | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...After high school, and some singing lessons in nearby Watertown, she auditioned at Manhattan's Juilliard Graduate School, won a fellowship, graduated with the highest singing rating in her class. When she sang in audition for Laszlo Halasz last year, he broke his usual routine of saying just "Thank you" to hopeful auditioners, and signed her on the spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songstress in Trousers | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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