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...captured Russian-made tank. To newsmen he said, "This is a pleasing sight for my old eyes." The Red journalists printed MacArthur's picture and quoted him correctly. But their version showed a great change. MacArthur was gazing, not at a Russian tank, but on a pile of dead North Koreans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...sustain war production for five years) is "not satisfactory," said Munitions Board Chairman John D. Small last week. The stockpile's goal is $8.9 billion worth of materials, but at year's end the total was only $2.7 billion. Small, who is in charge of the pile, promised to build...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Small Pile | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...department of cloaks and daggers, the HYRC, like the NKVD and OGPU, stops at nothing. The latest trick in its Saturday-thriller series was a wire recorder concealed under a pile of innocent, if dirty, laundry. The "embarrassing conversation" secretly recorded in an Eliot House room became a key item in the Young Republicans' intramural politics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Case for the HYRC | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

...Vocations." That was the word. Here they all were, put together in a special book. He placed the book gently on the table and went to his closet to select a striped tie. Then he remembered the other mail. There were three envelopes, lying close together in a careful pile. The first had a window cut into it; Vag snickered and tossed it back on the table. The next had a handwritten address. He opened it quickly. "24-Hour Cleaning," it said. "Why pay more?" Vag crumpled it into a tight ball and threw it into the fireplace. The maid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 1/10/1951 | See Source »

Gribble recently invited Gregg to his Eliot House room to "discuss the whole thing over a bottle of beer." While they talked, a wire recorder, which Gribble had previously concealed under a pile of dirty laundry, took down the conversation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Member States HYRC Blackmails Opposition | 1/9/1951 | See Source »

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