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Eight score and nine years rolled gently over the gently rolling battlefield of Princeton. By chance, it was little built upon. This week, while the sweet gums turned as scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Field of Liberty | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Last week's visit to Panama was one stop on a tour. Haya had already been in Colombia and Venezuela. In Panama, where the university gave him an honorary law degree, Lieut. General Willis D. Crittenberger invited him to lunch at Canal Zone headquarters. Haya would go to Costa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Legend on Tour | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

In these happy circumstances delegates voted freely. After jockeying about with old-fashioned gusto, the convention picked not Smith, but tall, stooped A. Willis Robertson, 59, a Congressman for 13 years, a member of the Ways & Means Committee for ten years. Virginians recognized Robertson's own special qualities: he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Democracy at Work | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

For his best paid and most featured new girls, Smart signed on a pair of Hollywood studio draftsmen named Joseph De Mers and Fritz Willis, who work mostly as a team, passing the drawing board back and forth. Says De Mers: "I paint a while and he paints a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 17 Men & a Girl | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Esquire's foot-in-mouth pressagent Russell Birdwell immediately started lighting up the red fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: 17 Men & a Girl | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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