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Potato Seekers. On the Autobahn at the edge of Berlin, a young girl in a bright print dress lies on the grass in the warm sun. A man, whose dirt-streaked face is stubbled with beard, squats on a knapsack near her, staring out before him. A youth on crutches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Road Back? | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Then the scrofulous old curtain rolled up and all was forgiven in a gusty belly laugh. Edward Everett Horton, the 60-year-old grandpa of summer theater, blustered onstage and stood staring dazedly at the audience.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Edward & Henry | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

On Budget Day last week a large crowd gathered in the big, circular lobby adjoining the Chamber. Over the hubbub in the lobby came a sharp, shouted command from a guard: "Hats off, strangers." Everyone stood stone still. There was a long minute of silence as the Speaker's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pomp | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Their hero, the late El Chivas (by legend a university student who, disappointed in love, took to drink) made a living by merely staring soulfully at the sky, holding out his hand, never saying a word.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Bogota Beggars | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Like Giotto, Italy's first great painter, Městrović spent his boyhood as a penniless shepherd, grew up to be a religious mystic. But unlike Giotto, Městrović is no innovator. In manner as well as in spirit, he is traditional. But U.S. citizens who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man of the Past | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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