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After the stunning shock of the election, Republicans were beginning to stir again. Most of them were still trying to figure out what had gone wrong; some were sure they knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A Place to Stand | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

When a plane is flying at Mach 1 or above, shock waves flare back in a "V" from its nose and wing roots like water waves from the bow of a ship. The swept-back wings keep inside the V, and avoid a tangle with the shock wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fastest of Them All? | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Cliffe girls were even more amazed. They found linen tablecloths and napkins, flowers on the table, and PLATES. At Barnard, the shock was too great; they began to sing Christmas Carlos after dinner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thanksgiving Was Brimmin' With Turkeys and Trimmin' | 11/26/1948 | See Source »

Young Jezebel. She likes to run around her Manhattan hotel suite or "Windows," her twelve-room house in Bedford Village, N.Y., with no clothes on, and has to be prompted by friends when callers arrive. She also enjoys the bug-eyed shock on the faces of strangers when she pretends to be a dope fiend. (She sprays her temperamental throat with a doctor's prescription that includes cocaine.) Once, for the benefit of a visiting innocent, she took a Benzedrine pill (a drug she uses regularly), mashed it on wax paper with a rolling pin and asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: One-Woman Show | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Died. Alexander Vasilievich Vishnevsky, 74, leading Soviet surgeon, holder of the Stalin Prize (for brilliant work in the treatment of wounds and shock) and the Order of Lenin; in Moscow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

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