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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Your Dec. 5 article relative to ghostwriters gave me a kick. By inference you say everybody in the upper bracket in Washington employs ghostwriters-except Generals Eisenhower and Kenney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Heaven only knows how it must make the Congressmen feel-and I suspect they have no feelings at all except their own selfish ones-but surely the people themselves ought to feel terribly ashamed: 1) that they elected such fatheads and drunkards to office, and 2) that there apparently is no way to keep these guys from going to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 2, 1950 | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...energy into a form he could use. This method (level two) was much more effective than level one. About 1,000 years after its start, high civilizations were flourishing, with big cities, proud kings, complex religions and devastating wars. Many such cultures rose and fell with rhythmic repetition. But except for such cycles, there was little change for nearly 6,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Half-Century: STEEP CURVE TO LEVEL FOUR | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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