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The only uncaptured kappa man was Mag, the philosopher, who was too ugly and stayed inside his house almost all the time reading books in a dusky room lighted by a seven-color glass lantern. When No. 23 congratulated him on his bachelorhood, Mag sighed, said wistfully: "It's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Gulliver in a Kimono | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

In 1921, in a rambling, red-brick Victorian house with a rambling garden, he opened his famed progressive Summerhill School for boys & girls, where 70 sons & daughters of middle-class parents enjoy its unusual atmosphere. "The art of teaching," Neill decided, "is the art of leaving children alone." Summerhill is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: That Dreadful School | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Someone swore he had heard Conductor Klemperer mutter that the new opera was dreadful. Festival authorities, however, quickly announced that Klemperer "had found the ardors of conducting too strenuous; he has gone to Switzerland to recuperate." They recalled Klemperer's physical troubles after a brain operation years ago (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Walkout | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

It was 4 a.m. when Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov took off from Paris on his way back to Moscow. In the dawn, he flew across a continent which, for the first time since the dreadful but simple days of war, could see clearly where it stood.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Dawn | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

It was still raining next morning when Capital's maintenance director, James Franklin, circled his light plane over a 1,689-ft. Blue Ridge peak in search of Flight 410, then more than twelve hours overdue in Washington. Through a break in the clouds, Franklin saw a dreadful scatter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Flight 410 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

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