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...Twilight of a Stalchanovite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...commander conscious that history plucked at his sleeve, peered down at him from the lenses of the television cameras. He waited, impassively. As silence fell, he began to speak slowly, in a deep, reso nant voice. "I address you," he said, "with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country." Applause welled up again, interrupting him as it was to do again & again - in all, some 30 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Old Soldier | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

...rich Celtic twilight of William Butler Yeats and J. M. Synge has long since faded, but their disciples are still lighting little peat fires on the general bog of contemporary Irish literature. The latest of these, a novel by Walter Macken called Rain on the Wind, never quite bursts into flame; the book carries so much sentimental moisture that it douses its own glim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Bog | 4/30/1951 | See Source »

Voice from Home. In the twilight, infantrymen moving forward on tanks, armored-personnel carriers and trucks, buttoned their field jackets against the chill and dug into canned rations. Some huddled close to their vehicle's radio, listening to reports of a California basketball game. Task Force Growdon rolled on toward Munsan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: With Task Force Growdon | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...tidbits as with a vacuum cleaner. Lorenzo also sweeps up Olivia. Hayden falls into the eager arms of Roxy Eldritch, a freckled, redheaded home-town girl with a pert tongue, a figure that no man can keep his hands off, and "the voice of a bird flying at dun twilight over the western plains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Valedictory | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

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