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...During the Nazi invasion in World War II he fled Paris, lost all his belongings. Because of bureaucratic technicalities he received none of the allotments for war victims. Le Monde's reporter described Duval's home: "One icy cell, then another. One large iron bed, a blanket thin like blotting paper. No sheets, no table, no chairs . . . The walls -when you touch them, your hands come away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hate, Hate, Hate! | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...After you'd been chased by the Government for 15 years, brother, you'd be thin too," cracked Hallinan. That was good for a laugh. But as things stood in the fifth week of trial, the defense did not have much else to laugh about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: You'd Be Thin, Too | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...bacon & eggs?"). The free-enterprise champion was Mr. Cube, a personable lump of sugar invented by a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman and psychological warfare expert named Roy Hudson. On millions of sugar cartons, thousands of posters, pamphlets and ration-book covers, Mr. Cube's expressive face and thin, agile limbs have helped launch slogans like "You'll get the lump from Tate, but State will give you the hump." A "Memo from Mr. Cube," hitting state controls, went to 5,000,000 voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tate v. State | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...until they got land, the peasants would be skeptical. Said Maria Rosa Giuliano, who lives in a windowless cavern with her nine children: "We will believe in the good things De Gasperi says when we see them. We liked him-the poor, thin man. But we have been disappointed too often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land Hunger | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...College of Medicine in Chicago has already proved to be a valuable instrument in the treatment of cancer. The first patient treated with it (TIME, Sept. 5) was Fordyce Hotchkiss, 72, a retired Railway Express employee who had an egg-sized cancer of the larynx. Last week Hotchkiss was thin and nervous, but his cancer was pronounced "healed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Healing Betatron | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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