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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orwell is less a satirist-prophet than a chronicler of the present. In Finland last week, on the tenth anniversary of the country's invasion by Soviet Russia, the Communist Party spoke through Professor Vladimir Kemenov, a visiting. Russian "cultural" delegate. Said Kemenov in Helsinki's Communist Työkansan Sanomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Baseball's immortal Ty Cobb, 62, who was divorced by his first wife two years ago after 39 years and five children, was all set to try again with Frances Cass, fortyish, twice-married mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Old Gang | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...Party, which ran to 142 stanzas because its author was out to outdo The Ancient Mariner. At Brooklyn's Polytechnic Prep, he put out a handwritten gossip sheet called The Daily Glonk. But he did not really want to be an editor; he yearned to be another Ty Cobb. Though an inept ballplayer, Hadden modeled his batting style and his energetic walking style after his hero, and affected a side-of-the-mouth Brooklyn accent that he thought suitable for ballplayers. Elected editor of the weekly Record at Hotchkiss School, he wistfully wrote his mother: "I'd rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Posthumous Portrait | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Wolfville, N.S., Canada ty and Democracy") - but the latter may be more exact in meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

Tyrone was calm throughout the pushing and hauling that attended his arrival. Thousands of bobby-soxers cried their admiration for Ty il Magnifico. In the crush, one of them left her fur-cuffed sleeve on the running board of Tyrone's car. When Linda arrived half an hour later, the crowds broke through the police lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERIPATETICS: And Circuses | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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