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The other day a keen U.S. observer, back from a year in Italy, was warning of the danger of a Marxist political victory there. A listener asked: "But when the Marshall Plan gets going, won't rising living standards greatly reduce the unrest?" The observer replied: "Not necessarily. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Dr. Crankley's Children | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Those who have seen Benjamin Britten find it hard to believe that he could conceive so violent a play as Peter Grimes: it is almost like Baby Snooks reading lines from Medea. He is the kind of person no one remembers meeting at a party. Usually to be seen in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera's New Face | 2/16/1948 | See Source »

Radiomen who like radio the way it is have an outraged squeal of their own ("Narrowcasting!") at the whole idea. "This plan," they charge, "destroys freedom of the air! . . .It introduces a poll tax into radio." To which one SRadioman has replied, "On the contrary. . . . Those who don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Narrowcasting | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

To everyone's relief, the secret was out. Last week a Fort Worth matron, Mrs. Ruth Annette Subbie, 45, answered her telephone, sobbing with excitement, screamed out the identity of "Miss Hush" (Dancer Martha Graham), and won the biggest heap of prizes in radio history: $21,500 worth. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hushed Voice | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Cramped into tiny booths along the walls, interpreters translated his harsh Russian into four other languages. Their translations went out by short wave to small portable receiving sets (with earphones attached) which are issued to all delegates and visitors. They let the listener move about, untethered by wires. Vishinsky digressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: What Sammy's Nickel Bought | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

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