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Always paying cash for what she found, and never leaving a forwarding address, Edith Gregor Halpert quietly amassed the biggest collection of folk art in the U.S. She started combing New England, Pennsylvania and upper New York State in 1929, and found over 1,000 pieces in three years-including the best there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lady Raider | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

False Impressions. In Kansas City, Mo., Gladys Wedding laughed at a movie with such hearty abandon that she had to hustled to a hospital to get her tongue disentangled from her upper plate. Near harlevoix, Mich., Walter Springer, caught in an auto collision while his teeth were Darked in his shirt pocket, was treated for a nasty bite on the chest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 25, 1947 | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...humming with life once more. On its upper floors dormitories have been set up, shower rooms moved in bodily. A staff of 25 cleans and cooks, as academic affairs cram every old corner during...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salzburg Seminar Thriving On Zeal in Wartorn Austria | 8/15/1947 | See Source »

...more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Sugar-Bowl Migrants | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...church had no energy or funds to spend for missions; now it supports one missionary each in China, India and England. But of all First Community's exuberant statistics, none is more meaningful than the support it gets from the jukebox-and-Coca-Cola set. At nearby Upper Arlington High School 90% of the seniors and 96% of the student body as a whole are active members of the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Beloved Fellowship | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

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