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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Amateur telescope-makers are so notoriously single-track that their wives call themselves "glass widows." One wife, out of pique, once locked her husband in his cellar workshop; another sued for divorce and won. Editor Albert Ingalls last week proudly called off some of his pet names: D. T. Broadhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers at War | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Crazy Shambles. Slowly, surely, Author Carlson learned every trick and subterfuge of American fascism. He adopted the name "George Pagnanelli," modeled his speech, clothes and gestures on those of a youthful Italian, became a trusted lieutenant of Yorkville's Joe McWilliams, and a salesman for Nazi agent George Sylvester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Serpents and Vipers | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Neither Rome nor the Pierian Sodality, alias the Harvard Orchestral Society, was built overnight. At least, that's what Milton Van Dyke, the Secretary, sagely remarked the other day when the called attention to the fact that this year marked the 135th anniversary of the Orchestra.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

> Less directly involved in war, but caught in its vortex, were Novelist-Biographer Stefan Zweig, dead by his own hand in Brazilian exile ("The artist has been wounded in his concentration. . . ."); sensationalist Richard Julius Herman Krebs (alias Jan Valtin, hero of under-coverman Krebs's 1941 best-seller Out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Richard Anderson, alias Richard Peterson, alias Richard Williams, alias Rudolf Heller, alias Otto Melchior, alias Jan Valtin was born in Germany 37 years ago. Last week the Justice Department ordered him sent back there after the war.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Into the Night | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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