Word: upper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cream puffs, how to get out of Italy in a hurry. In front of the cafés, crippled children on crutches hobbled in a pathetically grotesque dance, hoping for a few lire from wealthy passersby. It is such contrasts, an expression of the fact that Italy's upper classes still live in luxury while two million unemployed must worry about their daily bread, that help Communism most in Italy...
...Models. Intellectual women have hair problems too, but of a different sort. At the Dundee convention, said Dr. Armattoe, 58% of the female scientists between 21 and 45 showed "hirsutism in the form of mustaches." Swedish women are luckier than others. Most of them are as bald on their upper lips as the male Swedes are on their pates. But on the whole, Dr. Armattoe concluded sadly, mustaches are an increasing problem to the cultured young women of Europe...
...only 11% of Italians replying to the question were against Western Union did not mean that the Reds were going to be snowed under in the April 18 elections. Only slightly more than half of the Italian electorate has heard about Western Union; most who have are in the upper-and middle-income groups. Moreover, it has been made no great issue in the Italian election campaign. Yet the survey does show, at the very least, that a popular basis for closer union exists today...
...subtractions, something new was added which would make dinner-table conversation out of the new tax bill for many weeks. It extends to taxpayers in all states the income-splitting benefits enjoyed by those in the twelve states (and Hawaii) with community-property laws.† For middle-bracket and upper-bracket taxpayers, this system of putting man & wife into a half-&-half fiscal partnership (TIME, Nov. 3) was the real bonanza...
Died. Abian Anders ("Wally") Wallgren, 55, Stars & Stripes cartoonist of World War I, whose tireless gouging at MPs, topkicks, cooties and second looies made him the comic favorite of the A.E.F.'s doughboys; of a liver ailment; in Upper Darby...