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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, with her eldest daughter Maria Aurora ("Baby"), her younger daughter's husband and a handful of Filipino officials, Mrs. Quezon traveled by car from Manila to Baler, where she was to dedicate a memorial to her husband. Riding in a station wagon with her relatives and Major General Rafael Jalandoni, she led the party through the mountains northeast of Manila where the Huks are thickest. All her companions felt that there was no danger involved where Mrs. Quezon was concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Murder in the Mountains | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Kirkland, last year's champion, has fallen. Not only have the Deacons lost two out of two, they have failed to enlist any more than two of last year's squad to help them out. Star outfielder Freg Wagon, for example, has strayed out of activity. This is ironic indeed in an organization which worships that rather vague deity, House Spirit...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Lining Them Up | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

Armed guards had thrown a tight cordon around Peiping's Wagon Lits Hotel, where a six-man Nationalist peace delegation sipped tea and sampled the Communist temper. Not even the hostelry's Italian barber Martelliti was allowed to pass the barricade. Not even the delegation's leader, soft-talking General Chang Chih-chung, could soothe the Reds' truculence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: City of Victory | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

Minors who use fake identification to get drinks in Boston bars will be "thrown into a patrol wagon and taken to the nearest station," according to the get tough policy announced this week by Mary E. Driscoll, Chairman of the Boston Licensing Board...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Age Fakers Get Patrol Ride From Tavern to Station | 4/16/1949 | See Source »

...also brought out a new model, the Traveler, a combination sedan and station wagon with a list price of $2,088. The rear of the Traveler opens up (see cut) and the back seat folds down on the floor, making a lugeage compartment almost as large as a station wagon's. K-F figured the car would be fine for small businessmen and farmers, who could use it as a truck by day, a family car by night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: K-F Cuts | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

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