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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Science cannot flourish under the domination of a social system," he told an interviewer before leaving for Paris to attend a conference on U.N. research laboratories. "It must be free and not warped to fit an irrelevant plan...To the extent that they are prostituting their, sciences in this direction, the Russians will be the losers." But, he added wistfully, "we shall lose some also, because they are excellent scientists, and they with us could help so much in the great scientific attacks on the ignorance, diseases, and the poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazer | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Bench & Bar. In Dallas, Justice of the Peace William E. Richburg sentenced Wife-Beater Grady Rogers to attend church with his wife for four Sundays. In San Francisco, after Stanley John Ostram had been arrested for doing 80 on the Bay Bridge, Judge Matthew Brady suspended his license, ordered him to drive across at 45 once each month for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 15, 1949 | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

When he refused to attend propaganda movies, Fujii was brought before a "People's Court." As punishment, he was thrown into the middle of a ring of prisoners, then kicked and beaten from one side to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Return | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

Into Chicago's Sherman Hotel last week trooped 600 secretaries of U.S. businessmen, to attend the National Secretaries Association's annual convention. Most of them had passed the age when they daydreamed about marrying the boss. They concentrated on such serious business as getting a recognized status as "certified professional secretaries," just like the accountants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pill for the Boss | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...years, Hafiz and Bashir have made ten Dutch converts (four of them women). About 40 people attend their monthly meetings. Yet Hafiz and Bashir are sure all Holland will be Moslem in 100 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Hell Is a Hospital | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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