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...threw my hands high in the air, yelled 'Kamerad!' and surrendered. Three of them came at me with raised rifles. . . . When they were a rifle's length away from me, I asked one to search my breastpocket. He took out my identification and the special photographer pass signed by Eisenhower himself. . . . I let my hands drop, took their picture and promised it would appear in LIFE magazine...
...search for the devil responsible for soaring food prices, the hunt turned last week to Chicago's grain pits. As corn for future delivery rose to $2.63¼ a bushel, an alltime high, and wheat soared to $2.87, Vermont's Senator Ralph E. Flanders, ex-president of Boston's Federal Reserve Bank, thought he had spotted the devil. It was Speculation. "The situation today in the commodity markets is comparable to that in the stockmarket in 1929," said he, "and it could have the same disastrous results." He demanded that trading on margin be eliminated and that...
...since Irene Castle bobbed her hair in 1914 had there been such turmoil, twittering and posturing among American women. What was going on? The search for the "New Look." What was the New Look? No one knew precisely...
...morning of Pearl Harbor, Henry "The Morgue") Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury and nominal head of the Secret Service, rushed to the White House like a county sheriff in pursuit of chicken thieves. "Peering through the White House windows in search of enemy aircraft," he was all for ordering machine guns issued to the Secret Service staff, including the office girls...
Seven years ago, a squat, powerful Negro girl named Pearl Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...