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...rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: Great Yelling | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...American policy has more to offer than an endorsement of a social structure that the great mass of Chinese rejects. By pressuring the Nanking government into the widest possible program of reform, the State Department can set out on the lone path leading out of the Chinese political jungle. "Thunder Out of China" is a revolutionary document but it advocates that type of revolution-by-consent that holds the last hope for the future of China, with or without Chiang Kai Shek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bookshelf | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

...soap operas; instead, a weekday Woman's Magazine of the Air, containing news and features about women, shopping and housekeeping information. ¶ No children's blood-&-thunder hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Air Castle | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...degree of appeal which such a combination will have for the nation's reading public. As compared with the original NR, this appeal is great. The drawings and cartoons which are interspersed throughout the magazine; the addition of such well-known writers as Vincent Sheean and Teodore H. ("Thunder Out of China") White; the more striking cover--all should serve to increase its popularity. Lessor-known, but highly competent journalists, including UN news-covering Jane Bedell and a former Newsweek editor Thomas Whiteside, have been added as assistant editors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 12/20/1946 | See Source »

...Three Years with Eisenhower), and General Lewis H. Brereton published his diaries, which made him out a far duller man than his fellow flyers knew him to be. The war in China was presented from an anti-Chiang point of view by Theodore H. White and Annalee Jacoby in Thunder out of China, which sold like hot cakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 16, 1946 | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

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