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...back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Page in History | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PENNSYLVANIA: Chasing Pigeons | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Tunesmith Jimmy McHugh was celebrating his silver anniversary as a Tin Pan Alley success-and all of Tin Pan Alley seemed to be joining in the celebration. Disc jockeys, bandleaders and crooners were steadily plugging the tunes the nation once knew by heart: I'm in the Mood for Love, South American Way, On the Sunny Side of the Street. But, as usual, no one was plugging them harder than rolypoly Jimmy McHugh himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How to Stay Contemporary | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

...recall, met his present parishioners one day last summer when he went for a walk by the River Han and saw the swarms of ragged urchins clawing over the piled-up refuse for scraps of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story, he figured that $100 would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...unseasonably hot night. At the Wallace rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, William S. Gailmor, a onetime radio commentator who now rattles the tin cup for Henry, boomed at the 19,000 faithful: "A few blocks down the street they are going to show a picture which should be boycotted by every right-thinking person. So you know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Randan at the Roxy | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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