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...Whisper. Newspapers, after that, were full of stories of a rift between Farley and Roosevelt, who finally summoned Farley to Hyde Park. After dinner they talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Memories of a Bad Hand | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...said Roosevelt, "I am going to tell you something I have never told another living soul." Roosevelt dropped his voice to a whisper. "Of course I will not run for a third term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Memories of a Bad Hand | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...civilized the Russians, has made them wash and pull up their pants, has taught them how to walk like Europeans (some Russians from the steppes had a curious gait, left arm and left foot swinging forward at the same time). Now, whenever shots are heard from Russian barracks, Viennese whisper: "Aha, a Russian who likes the West too much is being liquidated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWILIGHT IN THE HELDENPLATZ: TWILIGHT IN THE HELDENPLATZ | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Russia, but who was far cagier in his report than Traveler Newton had been. G.O.P. White House-hunter Harold E. Stassen voiced his "sober optimism" that the U.S. could win the peace by remaining strong and being wise, and hoped that Americans "will never surren er to the insidious whisper of the inevitability of war." He also had something to say about the convention's business: "I wish to state simply and directly that I do not agree with" two of the convention's resolutions: 1) for withdrawing the President's special representative at the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: St. Louis Blues | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In a High Wind | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

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