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...cunning that crowns their colleagues in other lands. The senseless excesses of EAM terrorists have long held Communist gains below what they could have been. Best known Red bosses are: George Siantos, wartime Secretary-General of Greece's Communist Party, whose mustache (which he carefully brilliantines) is as trim as ever, but whose political strength is dropping; and Niko Zakhariades, present Secretary-General, a Moscow-trained' veteran party organizer who once shot a man in an Athens square. (Zakhariades claimed that his victim was a Trotskyite, but since the Greeks were not then using the Moscow ground rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...that was what happened when trim, 40-year-old Ellen Irene Diggs, Ph.D. in sociology and anthropology at the University of Havana, registered at Rio's new, 2O-story Hotel Serrador. Dr. Diggs went off without fuss to another hotel. But when word of the Hotel Serrador's decision got around, she became quite a figure in the news and editorial pages of an angry Brazilian press. Cried Rio's Democracia: "In a land where race discrimination is not the concern of statesmen or a headache for sociologists ... an incident like this demands an explanation." Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Mistake at the Serrador | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...kept car building far below needs. If car builders got the steel they needed-and got production up enough-the pinch might be eased before it turned into a crisis. But, to make that possible, some industries, perhaps automaking, would have to lose some of their steel and trim production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Situation Bad | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Last week travelers could carry, in one trim volume, much of the best work of a prodigious literary traveler-the proud, pawky Irish genius whose explorations often needed a map to follow. This week (he latest map was also provided, in a new book-length study of James Joyce's famous Ulysses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Traveling Joyce | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Openly enthusiastic over the way the Crimson pummelled Boston College in the Garden last Tuesday, coach Barclay at the same time cautions against over-confidence in tonight's contest. On the basis of records against two common opponents, Tufts and M.I.T., Harvard should trim Northeastern by 38 points. Muzzling the Huskies, though, won't be as soft as this comparison would indicate, according to the Crimson's hoop mentor. "If we want to, we can win, but if we start thinking about Princeton, we may be in for a tough night...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Crimson Favored Over Husky Five In Game Tonight | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

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