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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later, its doors are open to them, and they know whom to thank for it. Lewis regarded himself as a guestly parasite on the American press, read it with a cocked and tireless eye, picked its best brains as charmingly as he captivated capital hostesses. He called Dorothy Thompson the discoverer of "perpetual emotion," once rebuffed a girl reporter from Manhattan's PM: "Don't tell me you print just facts. Nobody knows what a fact is." Since 1942 Frank Oliver, a restless redhead from Reuters, has been Bill Lewis' legs and has filed the bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sir Bill | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Died. Dixie Tighe (rhymes with Zweig), 41, famed New York Post and I.N.S. foreign correspondent, one of the first newspaperwomen to go overseas in World War II, ex-wife of British Journalist C. V. R. Thompson; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Color Question (Aug.). In Columbus, Ohio, a housepainter, exasperated by the endless questions of three-year-old Harold Thompson, painted him red, sent him home. Scrubbed, the boy returned, got a battleship grey treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...WINIFRED THOMPSON Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson, Georgia's newly elected lieutenant governor. At week's end no way had been found of resolving the dilemma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Death of the Wild Man | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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