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...people"-the descendants of farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent migrations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Neglected Giant | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...famous picture of himself, impeccably attired in top hat and morning coat, signing Japan's surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri. At that moment, Lieut. Colonel Aubrey Kenworthy, U.S. officer in charge of the prisoners, passed. "Haven't you seen these pictures before?" he asked. Shigemitsu shook his unkempt head, kept turning the pages. Then he muttered: "It's been such a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Greatest Trial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...King. Rumania's Communist matriarch, grey, unkempt Ana Pauker, demanded "peoples' courts to judge those who have betrayed the interests of the people . . . dissolution of Maniu's party and arrest of all its traitorous leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Ordered House | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires province. Her father, Juan Duarte, was a handsome and susceptible small landowner of nearby Chivilcoy. Her mother was a dark-eyed Basque named Juana Ibarguren, whose charms were sufficient to lure Juan from his wife. The couple set up housekeeping in a tumbledown house with an unkempt yard overrun by chickens. They had five children, of whom Eva was the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Little Eva | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Dirtiest city: Indianapolis, "unkempt . . . unswept . . . a terrific place for basketball . . . auto racing . . . the American Legion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gunther's America | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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