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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarin was forced to take the plane back to Brussels. There, according to the plan, the authorities were supposed to send him back to London, and London back again to Brussels, so that he would dramatically shuttle back & forth until the world got the point (whatever the point was). But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: For the Love of the World | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

On to Glory. The three Davis followers were Anders Clarin, 37, a Swede who had spent the better part of his life in the import-export business until one day he got sick of filling out government forms and went to Paris (i.e., the Flore); Cameron Ewan, 19, who left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: For the Love of the World | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

* At the same synod, Rabbi Gershom also decreed it unlawful to open letters addressed to others. This led to the custom, prevalent in Eastern Europe until recently, of marking letters sent by messenger with the initials BHDRG, an abbreviation for "Beherem de Rabbenu Gershom-under the ban of Rabbi Gershom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Perquisites for Polygamists | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

The Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Hardened Artery | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

In Paris, Princess Margaret, fun-loving, 18-year-old younger daughter of Britain's King George VI, did the galleries, appeared circumspectly at a nightclub, danced until 2:30 a.m. at an embassy ball, and slipped through a garden gate to escape a carload of photographers determined to pursue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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