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In the north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Of greatest local importance, perhaps, is Mr. Conant's avowed opposition to such legislature as the proposed Barnes Bill, now resting somewhere in the devious channels of the Massachusetts State House. Although just about all educators in the Commonwealth presumably are strongly opposed to an act that would put every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To the Age That Is Waiting Before | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

The Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sin & Sanctity | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

To crack down on Communists, Congress last week established "military control bases" in some of the country's large cities. Mayors would act under the orders of the military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Retreat from the West | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

"The writer, the publisher and the reader have certain inviolable civil rights, and all three have responsibility for vigilant protection and uncompromising maintenance of these rights and this freedom. If they fail-that is, if you and I fail, here in Europe, or in America, or anywhere in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDEOLOGIES: Thank You, Thank You! | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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