Word: excerpts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With reference to the cover portrait of TIME, Aug. 18. . . . Excerpt from the records of the Lower Slobbovia delegate...
...Madrid, the daily Informaciones erupted in a front-page editorial, titled TIME and a Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
...know, a major concern of the U.S. and the world press. A corollary of this problem, the Soviet press itself, is the subject of a recent report by Craig Thompson, now home from a two-year tour of duty for TIME & LIFE in Moscow. The following excerpt from it may interest...
...herself never went to school much, "owing to the cold, and not warm enough clothing." But last week she did try her unschooled hand at an article (in the New York Times Magazine) to explain how she goes about painting. The Times printed it just as she wrote it. Excerpt...
Crowned: Cinemactress Alexis Smith, by roly-poly California Sculptor Yucca Salamunich. who says she has The Sexiest Head in Hollywood. Judy Garland, Salamunich decided, has The Least Sexy Head. Excerpt from the admiring sculptor's informal citation to Miss Smith: "She has the perfect North American head. Those high cheekbones and yunnnh! That nose! Long and straight. Passionate women always have long, straight noses...