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Many middle-of-the-road Belgians, unimpressed by Le Peuple's poisonous campaign, nevertheless suspected that Leopold, a man of considerable intelligence and ability, was a natural autocrat who would never be comfortable within the limits of a constitutional monarchy. In 1940, two weeks after the Germans invaded Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: The Bitter King | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Princess Margaret, 18, who has not been able to move on her Italian vacation without sending the local press into spasms of purple prose, drew support from home in her pleas for privacy. Said the London Times: "It would be a fair concession ... if a closed season were now agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lively Davy | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

White-haired little Common Pleas Judge Samuel H. Silbert, who has ruled on 35,000 divorce cases in 25 years on the bench, unhesitatingly scrawled his signature on the fake petition. From first to last there was no hearing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sign Here | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

Examinations are here again, so it is time to make the following pleas. One of them is new, one of them is middle-aged, and the other has become a semi-annual classic. But all three, if acted upon, would help to make examination time even more a period of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Suggestions | 1/21/1949 | See Source »

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