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...toted cases of liquor aboard, made the lives of Negro stewards miserable; got off the dirty-joke ship "news" paper which must have startled Russia's silent correspondent A. M. Khoklov, a captain in the Soviet navy. Baldwin's recommendation: a permanent accreditation committee of newsmen, to weed out the unfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dirty Work at the Crossroads | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...they have acted in everything from Dostoevsky to Noel Coward, from high drama to sheer drivel. They have long been the most famous stage couple in the world-and year in, year out, probably the best box office. On the road, even when it had dwindled into a weed-choked path, they have never slipped. A week before O Mistress Mine opened on Broadway, it had a prodigious advance sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...camps, CWS prepared a toxoid against botulism, a form of food poisoning which it was feared the Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Into the Night | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...junta promised to step down when a new President is chosen by popular vote next spring. Meantime they were busy with plans to turn the income from Venezuela's fabulous oil wealth to the people's account through low-cost housing and better social security, and to weed out the grafters from previous regimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Approval | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

...lusty Windsor itself, across the river from Detroit, things were even worse. First, a lonely, tipsy man was stabbed and critically wounded on a deserted street for no reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Crime Wave | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

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