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Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture had good news for barefoot boys and for the lumber industry. It reported that a Chinese chestnut, Castanea mollissima, is doing well in many parts of the U.S. The trees in an experimental plot near Roanoke, Va. are now 14 years old, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chestnut Replacement | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Scraps & Flaps. Along with the colored-string booklets and other scraps of paper (including scraps of stationery and envelope flaps) on which Emily had scratched her verse, Harvard would get stacks of letters, family records and diaries recently unearthed in old trunks and boxes in Austin Dickinson's Amherst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Out of the Top Drawer | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

At a fashion show in Burlington Mills Corp.'s Manhattan office last week, the textile company showed the public something it has never seen before. Bur-Mill paraded dresses, evening gowns, men's bathing trunks and men's & women's suits of Du Font's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXTILES: Warm & Washable | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

A wave of applause was rolling slowly up the hillside with Kee Young Ham. Compact, muscular, dead-pan, he ran easily in his white trunks and jersey, staring in front of him, apparently ignoring the shouted messages from the sedan. He was gone as quickly and unobtrusively as he had...

Author: By Rafael M. Steinberg, | Title: CABBAGES & KINGs | 4/21/1950 | See Source »

At week's end, as Patterson was resting in the Bahamas, the State Department called in Dr. Carrera and roundly rejected his government's protest. But whatever the diplomatic niceties of the situation, it seemed clear that Patterson and Guatemala were thoroughly fed up with each other; if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Diplomat's Difficulties | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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