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Through the years, as Mackenzie King had plodded past Sir John A. Macdonald's Canadian record of 18 years, 11 months and 26 days as Prime Minister, and Sir Robert Walpole's British Empire record of 20 years, 10 months and 10 days (TIME, May 3), M.P.s had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Into the Shadows | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Most televiewers kept staring at their sets until the gavel had fallen for the last time. For all its blurs and fluffs, TV had told a fascinating story. Under the forced draft of its first big assignment, it had proved to be an unpolished but very promising reporter.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Goldfish Bowl | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

Philadelphia's prize rookie (he gets the standard rookie salary: $5,000 a year) is wholly unlike the Ring Lardner version. A lithe 170-pounder, Richie is well-dressed, polite and as serious about baseball as he is about most other things. On the road, he goes to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Kid from Nebraska | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

The dust of Gottwald & Co.'s departure from Lany had not settled when Masaryk's black Packard pulled up at the little white-fenced cemetery. His grey Homburg in his hand, Jan Masaryk stood staring at his father's grave, at the clusters of farm buildings that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Hunted | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Are there living beings-or Some form of life-on the planet Mars? No one knows. But last week Mars paid one of its close (63,000,000 miles away) visits to earth. Its inhabitants, if any, could have taken a good look at their big, cloud-blotched neighbor. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Far-Away Lichens | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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