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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Changes Coming. The listening officers broke into applause, and many a naval eye was awash. They rushed forward to wring his hand. "Admiral Denfeld," said Missouri's Navy-minded Dewey Short admiringly, "I don't know what you had for lunch, but brother, it was a correct diet. There will be a lot of starch added to the shirts of the Navy." Chairman Vinson added gravely: "You have rendered a distinct service by putting the chips on the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Facts & Fears | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy 'Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

After his martial admission to "The community of the just upon earth," i.e., a tiny fictional subsect of the Scottish Reformed Church, young Robert Wring-him put on the full armor of God, and then some. The story of his un-Christian soldiering is told in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Un-Christicm Soldier | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Soviet Citizen Dodonov...was suddenly dismissed from a factory for 'political reasons'...systematically beaten...kept on his feet without moving for 20 days...Soviet Citizeness Demidenko...received no food for six days...was beaten on the feet with clubs in an attempt to wring an admission from her that she had gathered some sort of information for the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Fur Flies | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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