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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, the Council of Foreign Ministers will meet in Paris to discuss the future of Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). U.S. officialdom this week was like a man who had been pushing against a door which someone had been holding shut from the other side. Now, suddenly, the door was thrown open. There, nodding and smiling enigmatically, was the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Russian for Hello | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...lose, they will attend a party tonight thrown for them by the Manlius School, a local prep school...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Crimson Crews Favored for Eastern Title | 5/14/1949 | See Source »

...Minshushugi. Like thousands of her emancipated sisters, Housewife Michiko Yamaga takes time off from her chores each morning to see what Dagwood's wife is doing. "If I had even stopped to read the paper like this in the old days," she says, "my in-laws could have thrown me out of the house for being lazy. Now to read is democratic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...House's 245 seats against 125 for the Liberals. Last January George Drew, 55, had given up the premiership of Ontario to become the Tory leader. In the federal Parliament he had been an outspoken, hard-hitting member. He had made things hum in the House, had thrown his party into high gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Leadership Test | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...presenting "The Tempest," as in the other shows, the HTW has thrown contemporary stage conventions to the winds. Crediting its audience with more intelligence than do most Broadway producers, the Workshop and its director, Albert Marre, have produced a "Tempest" that crackles with surprises, fantasies, and abandon. Everyone on the stage at Brattle Hall last night, other than Prospero, was obviously having a grand time, and that feeling was what they tried most to transmute to the audience. "We are such staff as dreams are made on" became their thesis, and they proved it. By never once allowing a touch...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: The Playgoer | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

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