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...weeks Cartoonist Al Capp had sent his Li'l Abner chasing after Lena the Hyena, the ugliest woman alive. Just how ugly she was, Capp wisely left to his readers' imaginations. Every time she appeared, a big "DELETED" showed where her face should have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Don't Marry That Gal! | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

Will TIME [April i] agree that Brooks Brothers' Union generals' uniforms, or for that matter all Union uniforms, particularly privates', were the ugliest, bulkiest misfits of all military history? Far snappier were those of the Confederate officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 29, 1946 | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Ravaged, still-disputed Manchuria was the ugliest wound that would have to heal before the pattern of Chinese unity could be complete. To heal other sore spots in Shansi, Honan and Hupeh provinces, tireless U.S. Peacemaker George Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Wounds | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...practically every American intensely admired them, and hoped to be a Robber Baron himself. The result of their enterprise was to speed up the development of the continent. But in one of the most beautiful lands on earth the Barons created in an incredibly short time one of the ugliest civilizations in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Sage of Kansas | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...methods of realism are only a tool. In blending the horrible with the ludicrous, alcohol becomes the catalyst. Drink encourages characters endowed with normal human cowardice to plunge gaily into the ugliest and most dangerous situations and carry them off with unexpected turns of drunken ingenuity. The puzzle is no longer a chief attraction. The principal characters are all detectives and all Watsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mulled Murder, with Spice | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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