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Amid the gossipy birthday crowds strolling last week across the imperial gardens at Tokyo, a frayed, rustic-looking little man stopped, doffed his hat and made a low bow toward the palace. In the middle of this gesture, once compulsory but now archaic, the little man suddenly became aware that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

One of the facts of life in the new Met assemblage was a Roman copy of a 5th Century B.C. Greek bronze, The Wounded Amazon. The Met had picked it because it demonstrated some of the esthetic qualities the Greeks had prized most highly: the Amazon was dead calm, despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pericles to Picasso | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Enclosed please find the cover ... I just can't read the magazine with that hideous picture staring at me, nor can I put it aside for it is sure to glare at me . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

He raced across rubble-strewn back lots. Suddenly, he was face to face with Antoinette Duvernois, who had known him since he was a boy. She shrank back. He panted: "Don't be alarmed! I never fire on unarmed civilians." He ran on, past a staring millworker. "The Russians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Journey into Fear | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

They got used to new smells-including the acrid insecticides that were sprayed through the plane before tropical stops. On the 8½-hour hop across the South Atlantic to Dakar, plane riders learned how uneventful a trip could be: in hours of staring out the window, a pair of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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