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Young Ana got a job teaching Hebrew at Temply Coral Synagogue school. She was a slender young girl with even features; one of her students remembers her as gentle and kind, with unruly brown hair which she kept tossing off her forehead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: A Girl Who Hated Cream Puffs | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Sophie Tucker, 64, everlasting "Last of the Red-Hot Mammas," trotted stoutly into a veterans' hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. to spread a little cheer. In the course of the proceedings, square-rigged Sophie lost her footing, went hard aground, broke two toes, departed the hospital in a wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 29, 1948 | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...continued to give Skipper Seligman moments of agonizing suspense. The Cap Pilar's adventures-standing off the great surf of lonely Tristan da Cunha, fleeing before the howling westerlies from the Cape of Good Hope across nearly 6,000 miles of ocean to Tasmania, delicately threading between the coral reefs of the South Seas-are fascinating reminders of the age of seamanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: White Sails Crowding | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...slain a little baby for the coral on its neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pooh to a Callow Throstle | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...might be the hard core of a volcano or peak formed by above-sea erosion. Only deep drilling could give the details. But the mountain was there, far below the growing zone of coral. Darwin, from the deck of his windjammer, had guessed right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mt. Bikini | 1/13/1947 | See Source »

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