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Attired in the white silk Buster Brown shirt and leather knee pants of his Master-of-the-Hunt suit, Hermann Goring last week entertained in the vast study of his Karinhall hunting lodge Karl von Wiegand. Month before the No. 1 Hearst foreign correspondent had been given an exclusive interview with the No. 1 Nazi, Adolf Hitler, who wanted to get across the idea that the U. S. had nothing to fear from Germany. The story was neither widely published nor widely believed in the U. S. So the No. 2 Nazi now tried his hand at the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Goring to the U.S. | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

Question for the Department of Justice last week was raised by the Wall Street Journal: although the Government can break up monopolies and prevent "conspiracy," can it force the fragments to compete where they do not want to? Trust-Buster Arnold took broad moral ground, made much of the disparity in size and bargaining power between the five manufacturers, the thousands of small growers. Answered American Tobacco Co.'s President George Washington Hill: "If the prosperity of an industry, the growth and successful operation of a company . . . were to be made causes for attack, then we could scarcely expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Auction-Room Aromas | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

...Engaged. Buster Keaton, stone-faced funnyman, 43; and Dancer Eleanor Ruth Morris, 21; in Los Angeles. Said Keaton, already twice divorced: "I feel like smiling, but the studio won't allow it-not in public, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 3, 1940 | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...Freddle Rich used for a previous date has Benny Carter trumpet and arrangements worth catching . . . "More Than You Know" by the Carter band itself is swell, as is the reverse "Shuffiebug Shuffle." Why this fine band isn't given more work is more than this writer can figure out . . . Buster Balley's "Chained To A Dream," recorded when the John Kirby band was still at the Onyx Club, has a few too many pretty trills for me, although it does show off the amazingly pure symphonic tone that Buster can get on clarinet when he wants to. The reverse...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/31/1940 | See Source »

Fair of 1915, the Paris Fair of 1925, and the Chicago Century of Progress, the new Rose-colored spectacle has much more varied costumes, provides snatches of old tunes, glimpses of past gaiety. By pairing up Waterlulu Eleanor Holm with handsome Swimmer Buster Crabbe, instead of Aqua-caveman Johnny Weissmuller, Rose added oomph to their big aquatic waltz. The water scenes gain from the use of fountains and a "curtain" of shimmering spray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Old and New Show in Queens | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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