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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article is a clear and liberal interpretation of the reasons for the minority stand of this American, and is a genuine contribution to our tradition of religious freedom. J. W. HUGHAN Wiscasset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 5, 1949 | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America's erstwhile No. 1 Communist Gerhart Eisler. When one of the delegates blurted out "Long live Stalin!", foreign guests and their Soviet friends applauded loud and long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: Samovar to Tula | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...University of Illinois' Dr. Donald W. Kerst, inventor of the betatron (TIME, Dec. 29, 1941), hopes that the doctors will learn how to cut out the middle step and use the electrons raw upon cancerous tissues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Beam | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...curtain mercifully fell on the hammed-up Hamlet, a voice from the balcony yelled: "Author, author!" A stir ran through the audience aboard Cap'n J. W. (Bill) Menke's Goldenrod, last of the Mississippi's showboats, and up to the footlights stepped one of William Shakespeare's belated collaborators, Cap'n Billy Bryant, onetime showboat king of the Ohio. Hollered the voice: "Shoot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: There Goes the Showboat | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...York's Communist Daily Worker had not given its stamp of approval to local revivals of four old W. C. Fields comedies and last week Columnist David Platt told why: "It is because three of the four, The Bank Dick, My Little Chickadee and You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, are shot through with white chauvinism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dictum | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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