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...hours later, while police searched the roads for the man who had deliberately snuffed out four lives, a man walked up to the complaint desk in San Antonio's police headquarters. He was immaculately dressed, and he had a problem. "It seems that I am in a sort of a trance," he confided, stolidly. "I have a gun in my car. I think it has been fired. I don't remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Entranced | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Persuader. In Chicago, Merlin W. Griffith and his family of eight went to court with a bitter complaint: his landlord, trying to get him to move, was using a twelve-piece band in the small hours of the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...pictures wiped the smile off the Truman Doctrine. One showed Viennese workers and angry housewives massed before their old Imperial Palace; the sign they held aloft summed up their complaint in one German word which needed no English translation: "HUNGER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Unfit for Leadership? | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

Mayor Martin Kennelly of Chicago, who makes a point of double-quick refuse collecting, got a complaint from a citizen whose wife had accidentally thrown $30 in the garbage: the collectors had whisked the stuff away before the couple could rescue the money. Kennelly quieted the man down-and set a perilous precedent -by forking over $30 out of his own pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: City Hall | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...England do these things?" England's most famed producer of musicals, 73-year-old Charles Cochran, excitedly admitted that he had never seen a better show - "and those well-fed chorus boys, what a pleasure . . . not a pansy amongst them." One first-nighter voiced the only complaint : "I say, who was Oklahoma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Alec's Way | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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