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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...received 30 lashes and was committed to the care of the Nazis' sadistic quacks in the Ravensburg Experimental Station. Eight injections of poison in her right eye blinded it. Other injections destroyed the hearing nerve in one ear. Then the Nazis injected typhus into her blood to make serum. In the typhus block they did not bother to feed prisoners. The countess' last memory of Ravensburg was of feebly trying to fend off a ravenous woman prisoner turned cannibal. Two days later Yvonne awoke in Sweden. The Swedish Red Cross, accompanying Allied liberation troops, had found her among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Aristocrats | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Once in office, he proved to be a masterly politician-a dictator always ready to compromise for the sake of expediency, a Strong Man ever ready to conciliate to hold his power. He reorganized the courts to make justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: After the Landslide | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...whether the colt could even be saved for stud duty. Middle-ground soon indicated his intention: he learned to lie down and get up without using the injured leg (now in a cast). Said Trainer Hirsch: "He's so sensible, I'm pretty sure he'll make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Breaks | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Once, government inspectors forced La Prensa to clear its warehouse of paper and put it in the street, ostensibly so that they could make an inspection of steam pipes. The "inspection" dragged on until rain ruined the newsprint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: You Can't Print That | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

Although he says he makes money with both the Digest and Ebony, Johnson is convinced that the Negro press, in general, is handicapped by its poverty, which stems from its failure to attract national advertising. With Ebony, which will carry 487 pages of national ads this year, Johnson hopes he is breaking down the economic prejudice against advertising in Negro publications because their readers' incomes are supposedly too low. If he can make more money with Tan Confessions, he thinks he can do a better job in his other magazines of telling "the Negro how to make the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passion with a Purpose | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

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