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Just nine years ago, men drinking in languid Paris cafes, staring at the sky from Polish fields, listening to tremulous radios in American living rooms, were afraid of war. Their fears were justified when on Sept. 1, 1939 German bombers started battering Poland to a pulp.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chestnut Tree | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

No Improvements Allowed. The boys are mighty particular about how their songs get plugged. Whenever they can make it, they show up at the studio when a top singer first tries out a new one. Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Who Sings Shostakovich? | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

Staring at a crucifix on the courtroom wall, the most hated man in Italy sat apparently unmoved last week while Roman spectators screamed and cursed at him.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Pressed for Time | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

The last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Buckets 01 Blood | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

In such a world, Héctor Poleo has painted himself as a shriveled, sightless old man, ready for death to snatch him (see cut). In a corner of the canvas, like a bit of an old snapshot, is a tiny picture of Poleo as he really looks. Beneath that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightmare Alley | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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