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Although the backstairs conniving of some of his friends had become embarrassingly public, President Truman's official expression did not change a whit. His look indicated that he didn't smell a thing wrong. He was his usual blithe self, having a good time making proclamations, rewarding deserving Democrats, and entertaining a gardenful of pretty girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: This Terrible Job | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

...light blue sedan, husky William Gehring, 46, was moseying along the sand-rutted roads of northwestern Indiana. The air had a sharp but pleasant smell. Farmer Gehring sniffed it with proprietorial fondness, watched an echelon of his big tractors cut across the black muck and sandy loam. Trucks, loaded high with sweet-smelling green leaves, carried them to workers who dumped them into giant vats, then jumped up & down on them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: A Good Rotation Crop | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

...observer of M.S.I.'s seance remarked indelicately: "Well, you can't raise the dead without raising a smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Legion of Sorrow | 7/11/1949 | See Source »

...artist and close friend of hers: Sir Francis Cyril Rose. Coming from the shrewd old observer who had "discovered" Picasso, Stein's praise was a big boost for Rose's last London exhibition ten years ago; but not even Stein could then make Rose's work smell sweet to British critics. Last week things were different: Rose's new show at London's plush little Gimpel Fils Gallery had blossomed into a triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blossoming Career | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

...secret of keeping horses high in flesh, Missouri-style, is so fundamental that many horsemen pay little heed to it. The secret: hay. When the feed man delivers a bale that doesn't strike Ben's fancy, back it goes. "I can smell hay, or feel it in the dark, and tell whether horses will like it," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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