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But such pleasures, like the ring on the merry-go-round, cannot be enjoyed at leisure. Marlowe's more serious work takes him to a glass-eyed bookseller's orgy-nest just in time to find him dead, with Miss Vickers, squiffed in a Chinese gown, giggling over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Georgia finally had a bellyful of Ol' Gene. He played frantically on his campaign theme of "white supremacy. State rights, local self-government and oldtime religion." He sent a fiery campaign booklet to all farmers: Do You Want Your Child to Go to School With Negroes? But his attempt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Exit Gene Talmadge | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

For the second time in the South Pacific the Japs got a bellyful of surprise. Chased out of bases in the Solomons, last week they decided to attack Milne Bay, which lies at the southern tip of New Guinea. They headed south in warships and transports. Allied fighter planes lugging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jap Trap | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Not only was it a bellyful of surprise; it was a shoeful of irritation to the hop-skipping Jap, to whom the total conquest of New Guinea is becoming increasingly difficult. Ever since he landed at Buna on the north shore July 22, he has been trying to get at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Jap Trap | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

1941 was the year in which Business began to learn that it was incompetent to run Government, and in which Government began to learn that it was incompetent to run Business. Each job was too technical for the other to handle. Business' job was not social service but making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom, Shortages, Taxes, War | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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