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...Hitler really fly into towering rages and chew up rugs? Linge was asked. "I can only laugh at that," said he. "Hitler always had himself in complete control." Why, then, had he killed himself? "Because," said Hitler's valet, "everything was hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Wagnerian Finale | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

Congregationalist Chamberlain gets on well with her Anglican husband. "All it means is that we have two sermons to chew over on Sundays, instead of one," she says. "And of course we have some terrific arguments. My husband quite often starts off, 'Call yourself a minister?' Of course he considers that anyone who hasn't been 'properly' ordained, with the laying on of hands, has not really been ordained. Fortunately, we both like to argue . . . But sometimes he's rude about extempore prayers, or he'll say, 'Call yourself a church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Women in Church | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

During World War II he picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: PRIDE OF THE SEVENTH FLEET | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

LESTER GRADY Palmerton, Pa. ¶ The bull did not die; he just paused to chew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: The Pistol & the Claw | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...track for vehicles. Present steel-tank treads chew up paved roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Attention, Inventors! | 1/17/1955 | See Source »

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