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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Mukden, after studiously ignoring him for about four months, Communist officials finally paid some attention to white-goateed Consul General Angus I. Ward, 56. The Reds arrested him and four members of his staff. The charge: beating up a discharged Chinese employee, one Chi Yu-heng, after he had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Behind the Bamboo Curtain | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

The Paddock and Gleysteen report corroborated others received last month in Tokyo from a group of repatriated Japanese refugees. Some of the refugees were produced before a Communist rally in Tokyo, where each was paraded up on a rostrum to make a little speech. One youth tried hard to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Behind the Bamboo Curtain | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Novelist-Playwright Anita Loos was making the most of a good thing. Having cleaned up over $1,500,000 on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes as a magazine sketch (1924), a first novel (1925), a play (1926) and a movie (1928), she had collaborated with Playwright Joseph Fields to turn it into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Broadway Star Mary (South Pacific) Martin, topped by a haircut that resembles a scrap of Persian lamb, stole the show at a Manhattan benefit for an animal hospital. Though her own dog was home sick, she picked up a perfect understudy-Coky, a miniature French poodle with a hairdo to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Scheduled to fly to the U.S. this month on an official visit, swarthily handsome young (30) Mohamed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Persia, made some occidental preparations. He hired a pressagent, white-haired Henry Suydam, who took a leave as chief editorial writer for the Newark Evening News and began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 7, 1949 | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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