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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio. But for TIME you would have to be on the scene-to know whether his tie was under his chin or drooping to his waist, whether he gulped water from a pitcher or a jug or a glass, etc. You would have to know whether his wife was on the speaker's stand nodding her head affirmatively, negatively, or not at all because she was reading the comic strips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...tale. "Suddenly," he said, "she didn't arrive at the boat." Then he let slip the fact that two other teachers were on the loose: "At the same time they didn't come either on the boat Mikhail Ivanovitch Samarin, teacher of mathematics, and his wife, teacher of Russian languages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Whites? Reds? Call the Feds! | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...York Post Columnist Earl Wilson took off his clothes and attended a nudist convention at Sunshine Park, N.J. "If your wife wears a nightgown at breakfast," he wrote, "don't cuss her. Congratulate her. I looked rather thoroughly at these nude women and believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...Kind Bust" v. "Mean Bust." Before he left, the Japanese poured out their appreciation of General Eichelberger. The Emperor invited him to lunch-a rare courtesy. Prince Takamatsu, the Emperor's brother, came to tea with the general and his wife Emma (who through the war, and after, got a letter a day from her husband until she joined him in Yokohama). The governor of Tokyo and the governor of Yokohama got into a squabble over which would commission a sculptor to do a "kind bust" of the general-to supplant a stern-faced "mean bust" made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Uncle Bob | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...running Israel. His work day of twelve hours is broken by a frugal lunch at a small hotel with other government workers. Colleagues call him by his surname or, occasionally, E.G. During the fighting he slept at a boarding house near his office. Nowadays, he goes home to his wife, a nurse from Minsk whom he met and married in Brooklyn. Ben-Gurion has no close personal friends, but he is widely respected for his ability and his unassuming simplicity. Last week, on a road near Tel Aviv, a truck ground to a stop and the driver signaled for help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

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