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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reporting Diego Rivera's newest publicity-winning outburst-this time in the world of couture [TIME, May 3]-you might have added that his wife, Frida Kahlo ... is Mexico's best woman painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Payoff. In Battle Creek, Mich., 74-year-old James M. Pier won a divorce when he complained that his wife wore him out dragging him to bingo games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

Reuther recalled the things he had told his wife in the moments after he was shot. "I told her we knew a long time ago that the labor movement is no bed of roses, and that we had to expect something like this. I told her that I wanted her to promise she'd stay in this fight if they really had finished me. She agreed, and after that I felt all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The White Ceiling | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

South Carolina's coon-shouting Senator Olin Johnston, who stayed away from Washington's Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner because his wife was afraid she might be seated next to a "Nigra" (TIME, March 1), announced this week that he would nominate Dwight Eisenhower for President at the Democratic National Convention. This brought up two questions which probably won't be answered until the week of July 12: 1) Could the convention be stampeded into nominating Eisenhower? 2) Would Ike accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Two Questions | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Zielezinskis, who are Poles, arrived a fortnight ago with their two baby boys, two suitcases and nothing else. Dark-haired, snub-nosed Marian had been a German prisoner for four years; he met his wife in a Salzburg D.P. camp. At Farmer Rhinehart's, they would get not only a house but $100 a month. "A dream," said Marian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRANTS: Not Just Numbers | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

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