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...big-shot board of directors, including William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan and Archibald B. Roosevelt, promoted the project, set about collecting funds (goal: $10 million). Selling the Navy on the idea was easy; Admiral Nimitz is a natural-history fan himself. Last week Dr. Dillon Ripley, Yale zoologist, was on his way to the Memorial's future headquarters at Guam. From there he would island-hop to pick out bases; eventually he would wind up in Tokyo, where he hoped to win General MacArthur's support...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...second night, la repetition generate, is the real first night. To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society. Not till the third night, or première, can the general public buy seats, and then only the worst...
...price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving nightmare of the Nazi...