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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Better to Buy a Guitar." In Moscow, though the sun was out when Marshall's plane landed, things looked scarcely brighter. Andrei Vishinsky appeared, wear ing the steel grey Soviet diplomatic uniform with its star like a marshal's. The U.S. Secretary of State wore a plain overcoat and a neat grey Homburg. Reported one U.S. correspondent: "So in these strange times, a civilian dressed up like a general met a general dressed like a civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Reunion at the Yar | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Apparently, Austin, like a lot of other Americans, had a much brighter view of the Communist nature than the Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Where We Stand | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...associate dean of the College, but with the top floor of the Indoor Athletic Building being readied to receive any possible overflow, all new registrants will be housed, he said. A break in the number of applications rolling into the Office has made the College housing picture considerably brighter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Estimated 470 Will Register On Thursday | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...Rainbow (book by E. Y. Harburg & Fred Saidy; music & lyrics by Burton Lane and Mr. Harburg; produced by Lee Sabinson & William R. Katzell) is an apt title for a show where frequently rain is falling and the sun is shining at the same time. It is decidedly brighter than most musicals, and it might have been one of the brightest of them all; but its virtues can never quite shake themselves free of its faults...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 20, 1947 | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

...screen of television's future is not wholly dark: 1) a new, supersensitive pickup tube, four to five times brighter than its predecessor, makes candlelight do the job of a battery of floodlights; 2) construction of 44 new stations is expected to begin after FCC gives its ruling; 3) the Radio Manufacturing Association says that the U.S. is ready to build from 330,000 to 360,000 television sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roving Eye | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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