Word: understands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After all these years of being almost entirely shut off from anything on that side of the Atlantic, and even now when one has waited in vain for letters from friends and relatives over there, you may understand that TIME is certainly welcome. It is, as a former American-Finn expressed it, like a long-lost brother come back...
...interests encroaching on British trade. Last week, over the by-line of able Correspondent Philip Jordan, the Mail front-paged a red-hot story: "An offer of one million pounds a year is reported to have been made by CBS for the right to exploit Luxembourg Radio. . . . I understand that Colonel William Paley, head of CBS, has recently taken time off from his duties as chief of the Psychological Warfare Radio Unit to negotiate the deal with the Luxembourg Government...
...world's oldest parliament. Seated on a red, canopied throne atop a 20-foot mound, which Vikings had built a millennium ago, the royal visitors bravely heard 15 laws read to the assembled people in the nearly extinct Manx language (which their Majesties do not understand). They were given $1,000,000 to help defray the cost of the war. (Unlike the rest of Britain, the Isle of Man, which enjoys nominal home rule, remained at war with Germany between World Wars...
...Free Germany Committee came home to roost last week. The newborn German Communist Party met in Berlin and issued a manifesto setting forth the Party's program for the next step in Russian-occupied Germany. The program, whose moderation was startling chiefly to people who try to understand Communist behavior without understanding Communism, called for a popular front, parliamentary government and the unhampered development of private enterprise. The manifesto specifically...
...their own!" Just Big Kids. One afternoon when Picasso wanted to choose his own company or have none at all, three G.I.s, all bashful smiles and no French, arrived. Picasso let them have a look around his studio, then tried to make them understand that he was busy. They still made no move to leave. So, said Picasso, "I gave them a toy I had on my table ... a little box with a glass top and inside a few tiny balls that you keep rolling around until they drop in their sockets to make a pattern. ... I went on with...