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...legend came to an abrupt end when the Bolsheviks tore down Jenny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Third Rome | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...tale. The Revolution once more made it the capital of Russia. Once more, the country's tyrants dwelt in the Kremlin. With the new masters came symbols of the age that produced them-factories (steel, machine tools, electric equipment, autos, locomotives). The Communist planners went to work, tore down whole sections, built new functional concrete palaces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: The Third Rome | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...large, fierce breed, not suited to Manolete's specialty. Spaniards say: "A matador who turns his back on a Miura is a dead matador." Manolete drew the Miura through the sanguinary dance in the sand. As he drove the sword into the bull, one of the horns tore into Manolete's groin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: The Best Is Dead | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...cooled off, Ted was on the long-distance phone saying, "I just wrote you a letter . . . don't open it." Another time, he was about to pull into the driveway of his new home at La Crescenta, Calif, when a car whizzed by at terrific speed. Schroeder tore after it, forced the driver to a halt, and told him: "Look, brother, I got a wife and a kid and a dog . . . don't drive 60 miles an hour past my house again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Advantage Kramer | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...Jackson, Miss., ten-year-old Edgar Nation Jr. tore a page out of his notebook and scrawled a letter telling why Miss Aline Neal was his favorite teacher. Eddie said he liked Miss Neal because she "never sent any of us to the principal's office." In fact, he liked her so much ("and she's so pretty") that last spring, when Eddie was promoted to the fifth grade at Duling Public School, he asked the principal to promote Miss Neal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best Teacher | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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