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...Smash Hit. In Philadelphia, Raymond Palmer happily confessed to police: "I did it! I did it! It's something I've wanted to do all my life!" He had just smashed a plate-glass window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...north, on the edge of the Plain of Megiddo (Armageddon), Fawzi Bey Ka-wukji's Arab Army of Liberation had attacked the Jewish settlement of Mishmar Haemek. The Jewish Haganah, hoping to smash the Arab army, had thrown about 2,000 men into the battle. Kawukji sent an anxious appeal to the Arab League Political Committee, meeting in Cairo. Ka-wukji's army, it turned out, had suffered less than 100 casualties. But the Jews had driven the Arabs back, seized nearby Arab villages, firmly blocked the road into Arab Haifa from the southeast. Some Jews disguised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Less & Less Chance | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Judy Graves, the wistfully adolescent heroine of Junior Miss, was a smash in the New Yorker, on Broadway and in the movies, but radio audiences have always found her dull. Last week, after two dismal airflops, she was back for a third, determined try. And it looked as though the new Junior Miss (Sat. 11:30 a.m., E.S.T., CBS) might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Really Sincere | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...villain threatens to flog the half-naked heroine. . . . The beautiful girl is beaten to death on a sacrificial altar. . The men are stabbed and have their arms, legs and heads cut off. . . . The bride is kidnaped. . . . Fists that smash against faces settle all problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puddles of Blood | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

...that some mills were planning the expensive makeshift of shipping by rail from Minnesota's Mesabi range. The coal strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) would cut their needs if it lasted long enough. But steelmen kept their fingers crossed on that, as the Mackinaw steamed north to smash through the Straits of Mackinac, and later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Icebreaker | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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