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Moscow has recently debunked other Western delusions of grandeur. The steam engine, it seems, was not invented by Britain's James Watt, but by Ivan Polzunov. Thomas Edison gets false credit for the light bulb; Alexander Lodygin thought it up first. The first airplane was not constructed by Wilbur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFLECTIONS: The Age of Rediscovery | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Unheeded Plea. Mrs. Ayrton Gould, a Labor M.P., had her own objections to the death sentence. She said it demoralized prison personnel and made prison jobs repulsive to able people. She recalled the case of Edith Thompson, hanged 25 years ago for helping her lover dispose of her husband. Mrs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: End of the 8 O'Clock Walk | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Ailing General Chen Cheng was savagely criticized for his failure while commander in chief in the northeast. Screams rose for his execution. "We must restore morale with a man's head . . ." Many pleaded for the arming of village militia-why did not the government trust the people? A Kirin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Sorrow for Old Chiang | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Nonetheless Cripps knew that, in the long run, recovery and the Labor Party's fate depended as much on British workers' willingness to hold the wage line as it did on any other measures in his budget. Said he: ". . . We must remember that the economic plan is not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Cripps & Soda | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

This week, as the Concertgebouw gets ready to celebrate its 60th birthday, there is only one orchestra in Europe that can approach it in perfection and polish-Vienna's 100-year-old Philharmonic (TIME, March 29). Europe had heard and judged: in the last year, the sprightly Concertgebouw has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Superb Sexagenarian | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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