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...show not thy Bow Tie and thy White Walled Tire, lest thy friends shall be legion; for verily I say unto thee thou shalt know a tree by its fruits; therefore hear my-words thus...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan, | Title: Chinese Dopester Tells All | 4/30/1949 | See Source »

...Empire, he is secretly in the Communist Party and giving military information to the Soviet. When his young wife learns of his treason she becomes a thorn in the side of the intelligence operation of the Russians in London, and the major is instructed to liquidate her lest more trouble follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

Members of the State Department have called the Seminar "the best method yet devised of presenting America to Europeans." But since its start, the school has avoided any official connection with the Government lest Europeans consider it a propaganda tool. Even so, many of the students, particularly in 1947, came to the Seminar on the lookout for indoctrination in the "American way." Often they were surprised to discover that the Americans on the faculty and staff were willing to examine criticism of the United States. The democratic atmosphere, at the Casile made propaganda unnecessary. Most of the Europeans were impressed...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: At Start of Third Year Salzburg Seminar Boasts Imposing Record | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

Murphy suffered an eye injury Monday while playing squash. He was released from the Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday but was warned to stay away from contact sports such as basketball for some time lest he harm his eye permanently. There is a remote possibility that he will play in the Yale game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BC Five Favored To Beat Freshmen | 3/5/1949 | See Source »

...Willie Pep, decided the judges, had won his return engagement, become the first featherweight in history to win back his crown undisputedly after losing it. Hartford folks who bet their shirts on him won a small fortune from the big-city slickers. Mumbled battered Willie, who had been worried lest somebody might have thought he gave up too quickly last October: "I had to prove the last one was no phony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Hero from Hartford | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

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