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Blandford, an Assistant Budget Director, is leathery, square-faced, married, childless. At 44 he is a veteran administrator. As general manager of TVA for six years, he helped bring order out of confusion. Mr. Roosevelt called him an "amazing executive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Sammy the Sweeper | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...twins. After they have been secretly rescued from their parents' burning castle, a friendly 19th-Century medico (H. B. Warner) severs their bond of flesh, dispatches one (Lucien) to live with a family retainer among Corsican bandits, the other (Mario) to Paris in the care of a wealthy, childless couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Sept. 24, 1841, James Brooke became Raja of Sarawak. An English adventurer in the service of the East India Company, at the age of 21 Jamie Brooke had been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of Absolutism | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Self-revealed, Leske is: 1) a mental twelve-year-old with a craving for speed and action; 2) a childless adolescent who had no sex experience until some time after he had been destroying other men's children; 3) a pulp-paper brain which listens only to the war communiqués on the radio, hates music, has to make an effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nazi Bomber | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...carefree way in which the reporter, Roger Adams (Mr. Grant), and the music-store salesgirl, Julie (Miss Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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