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Grocer J. Frank Grimes wanted a homey magazine that his customers could tuck into their shopping bags. Editor John W. Mullen wanted a mass audience for his Family Life movement, which fights delinquency and divorce. Young (31) Marshall Field IV wanted to try his wings as a publishing angel. Last week the three of them got together as sponsors of American Family, a 5? monthly to be launched in the fall with a starting circulation...
...second angel sounded, and as it -were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life, died. . . . And many men died of the waters because they were made bitter...
Somewhere in eastern Cuba, Dominican exiles lined up the team that would take over when the great day came-if it came. For Provisional President they picked soft-spoken Angel Morales, 50, Dominican Minister to Washington in the days before Rafael Leonidas Trujillo seized power. Their "army," which now included half the University of Havana football squad, drilled with bazookas, flamethrowers and machetes. Their "air power," they figured, would surpass the Dictator's, even though Cuba last week seized part of it: a Catalina flying boat, two Ventura medium bombers and a four-engined Liberator. Despite publicity enough...
...Angelic Antics. In this megalomaniac delusion, Goebbels played his usual sycophantic role. One night, as the bombs thundered above them, he read to Hitler from Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great. When he had finished, "tears stood in the Führer's eyes" and two horoscopes were sent for-Hitler's and that of the German Republic. They predicted a change of fortune after a period of disaster. A few days later came news of Roosevelt's death. Reported a witness, Count Schwerin von Krosigk: "We felt the wings of the Angel of History...
...bunkermates weren't on the side of history's angel. During the night of April 27-28, "Hitler called his court around him, and in this macabre conclave all rehearsed their plans for suicide." Only SS General Fegelein, Eva Braun's brother-in-law, declined: "He had not secured his adoption into the family in order to burn on the family pyre." He escaped from the bunker but was captured and shot. Early in the morning of April 30, Hitler married Eva Braun. (She supplied, says the author, "that ideal of restfulness . . . for which his bourgeois soul...