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Two samples from refugees' stories:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

What magic binds a housewife to her radio? Hoping to find out, the National Association of Broadcasters and the Radio Manufacturers Association offered 200 radios for the 200 best letters on the subject: "What I Think about Radio." By last week N.A.B. had over 100,000 letters (80% of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Household Deity | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

Rumors flew fast and wild. Was it a subterranean eruption fouling the Gulf with sulphurous poisons? Darling examined samples of the water under a low-powered microscope. He reported that the water seemed full of "waltzing mice": thousands of fast-moving organisms which "seem to accomplish their swimming by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Yellow-Green Peril | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

The Recorder. Blackford wrote home as often and as fully as possible, realizing that impressions faded quickly and eager to preserve as much of his experience as he could. "I fear all these stories bore you," Blackford apologized to his wife. But 20th Century readers will be grateful for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: News from Virginia | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Voice from the Widely Bimps. When he isn't exploding all over the basketball court, Frank Keaney is a good-natured Irishman who saves old glassware as a hobby. In practice, one of his tricks is to bolt a steel rim inside the baskets, reducing their size from 18...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Firehouse Frank and His Boys | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

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