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Jim Williams had tried just about everything - cowpuncher, railroad fireman, mule skinner, tattooer, prize fighter, machinist. None of these tries had brought him much of a living. In his spare time in smelly bunkhouses, roundhouses and ma chine shops, he had even drawn cartoons. One day he sent N.E.A. a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: I'm an Old Cowhand | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

Last week, 2½ months behind schedule, Pilots Truman and Evans landed at Van Nuys Airport outside Los Angeles. Their trip had covered 22,275 miles, cost $2,000 including gasoline and oil (which they bought on Esso credit cards). They were given a heroes' welcome. George got a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: Flivver Flight | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

In prewar days, Quebec's Fascist National Unity Party claimed 80,000 members and openly talked about a march on Ottawa to seize the government. N.U.P. folded when its leader, Adrien Arcand, was interned during the war. But N.U.P. is not dead; recently some 850 members held a rally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Interview at Lanoraie | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

The child of doting, well-to-do parents (the Theatre Guild), Allegro has been given every advantage that money can buy. For nursemaid, Joe Taylor has a full-sized Greek chorus singing Richard Rodgers' pleasant tunes; for playing after school, a full-scale Agnes de Mille ballet; for wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Careful Dreamer | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

Up Margins. The blame for the food rise, said Flanders, had been chased "pretty well back to the commodity exchanges and the farmers." The subcommittee did not know what to do about the farmers. But it wired President Truman to find means to curb speculation and margin trading in commodity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spiral Trail | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

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