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Veteran. Big, stoop-shouldered George Fielding Eliot got his baptism of fire as a second lieutenant of Australian infantry. He began to write, however, as a major of the U. S. military intelligence reserve. Behind this shift of allegiance lay a long story: born in Brooklyn 44 years ago, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Democratic War | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

For his first look, he headed for Paris, had his car sideswiped on the way in the reconstructed town of Arras, called in the top-flight Paris correspondents, questioned them closely on the European political situation. Next day Looker & Listener Hoover conferred with President Albert Lebrun in his Elysé...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Looker & Listener | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

According to a circular sent out by George C. Cutler '14, the Lionel deJersey Harvard scholarship was so named because he was a collateral descendent of the University's founder, because he was the first of the name in nearly 300 years to be enrolled as a student here, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campaign Started to Raise Funds for Permanent Endowment of Studentships | 11/23/1937 | See Source »

Lord Allenby brought his military reputation through the War with less damage than most of his peers. Born of an untitled Yorkshire family, he entered the Army after flunking Indian Civil Service examinations. Having proved himself a cool, competent bush fighter in Bechuanaland, Zululand and the Boer War, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Man on Foot | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

M. Mistler took it upon himself to find a new Marianne for France. Last week, with a new Cabinet in France, M. Mistler was out of office. To his successors he bequeathed his new goddess, a large, placid pseudo-Roman lady, the work of his good friend Sculptor Pierre Poisson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Marianne | 2/13/1933 | See Source »

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