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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Judge Joseph W. Vickers threw out Russian Exile Stravinsky's damage suit (headlined the New York Daily News: IGOR MORTIS), but added sympathetically that a suit against Leeds for breach of contract might be more in order: "The court feels that a composer has the right to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Declassed | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

For the sake of variety, European-trained Jesus Molina decided on a supine position. With a contractor's thoroughness, Molina consulted with scores of doctors on bone structure and rigor mortis, attended all the town's autopsies. The result, a massive, 6 ft. 2 in. figure of stone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Craftsman's Christ | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

One of Austin's fellow Councilmen, musing on the sudden death last week of Brazilian Delegate Leao Velloso, remarked: "I hope Austin doesn't get back in time to make a memorial speech. He'll insist on defining rigor mortis."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Freshman | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

By reconstructing the Viru Valley region, the diggers can span the whole sweep of the human cycle, from its primitive beginnings to rigor mortis.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Tokyo's influential Asahi worried over the "destruction of our traffic system as well as our electrical, gas and water supplies." Farmers were officially admonished to increase food production. The Bank of Japan limited reports because of disruption of communications. The Stock Exchange closed down. Japan's battered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Last Days | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

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