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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since he began basking in the reflected warmth from the White House. Last week Luckey hinted strongly that Truman was distressed by the idea of Jimmy Roosevelt running for the office. George Luckey was undoubtedly distressed, too: he had been acting as though he thought George Luckey represented the type of Truman Democrat the state needed. It seemed certain that fur would fly before Luckey gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Jimmy Takes the Dive | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...right spirit, can't fail to be amusing. You don't have to be a student of the Classics, you don't really need Latin at all to appreciate and guffaw at his comedy. The Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy have been successful at the same type of comedy for years, a slapstick variety with humor arising from situation and double-meanings rather than from plot intricacies. That is the type of humor in "The Braggart Warrior." Briefly, a soldier with a bigger mouth than a sword has one woman and would woo another. He keeps the first against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Miles Gloriosus | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...officers are planning an outing of just the type that causes Al Capp to be violently, publicly, and (it is believed) figuratively sick to his stomach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outing Club Goes Out On Picnic Tomorrow | 5/7/1949 | See Source »

...doesn't rain this afternoon, Harvard will play the Williams baseball team on Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. It should be another breather type game for the Crimson...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lacrosse Team Plays MIT Today as Nine Faces Williams | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...stars was seen to flare up suddenly to twelve times its normal brilliance and to subside again in less than 20 min utes, a phenomenon which, so far, is unique among stars . . . The atomic explosion . . . amounted to the equivalent of a billion atomic bombs of the Hiroshima type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Neighbors | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

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