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This coy summons in English appears on a big poster in the lobby of the Hotel Condestable in brown old Burgos. Similar appeals from a dollar-hungry Government can be seen in most of the world's tourist offices. Whether you will find what they promise depends on your definition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAY STATIONS: YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE HALF THE DANGER | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...Tlingit Tribe and renamed him Kitchnahshch (meaning unknown to Governor Gruening). He shipped in dozens of watercolors by WPA artists to brighten the buff walls of the big, old-fashioned governor's mansion, picked a hot desert scene with violet clouds to hang beside his lace-canopied, four-poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...retreating Chinese Communists, leaving behind their legendary capital, Yenan, filtered northward to other centers of Red strength. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist troops, commanded by stocky, dependable General Hu Tsung-nan, marched in, took down the huge poster of Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung flapping by the south gate, raised the twelve-rayed sun flag of the Government. After ten years, Yenan ("Permanent Peace") had fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: End of a Symbol | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...office and unrolled the brown wrapping paper from his plans for a $500,000 mortuary to end all mortuaries. Mr. Daphne, who owns three already, was well pleased. His site was a rocky knoll off upper Market Street, its only building a battered shed decorated with an old election poster. When Wright gets through with it the place will resemble a miniature World's Fair; a glamorous cousin of Southern California's lively Forest Lawn Memorial Park (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Happy Mortuary | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

With a week left for the University Community Fund Drive to reach its $33,000 quota, Charles A. Bliss, associate professor of Business Statistics and director of the University's Fund efforts, announced yesterday that the Drive, as indicated on a six-foot poster outside Weld Hall, has passed the half-way mark with $18,000 already contributed to the coffers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community Fund Hits $18,000 As Council, Faculty Contribute | 11/20/1946 | See Source »

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