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...Mainichi tonight, revealed that French military preparations envisage a "massive German attack with all forces," this spring, that France and Japan are preparing to open negotiations for French recognition of Manchukuo and that the French government views Russian Bolshevism and German Nazlism as essentially the same thing, comparable to cholera or the plague...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 3/1/1940 | See Source »

...young New York sculptor named John Henri Isaac Browere. From the mask Sculptor Browere made a widely .acclaimed bust. That gave him a grand idea: do the same by every American great and near great, get Congress to house his busts in a national gallery. Till he died of cholera nine years later, Browere worked busily toward his goal. But Congress never, built the gallery and Browere never got the money to turn his plasters to bronze. Discouraged, he left deathbed instructions that his busts should be stored for 40 years, until the nation learned to appreciate them. Ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Candid Masks | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...about to die salute you," quotes the gloomy padre of Fort Mysang as the soldiers leave. This pessimistic view seems justified until Dr. Canavan (Gary Cooper), an Army surgeon with a Freudian attitude towards fear, gets to work on the Filipino morale. After an epidemic of cholera, a chase in the trap-filled jungle, and a bloodcurdling Moro attack, Dr. Canavan's and Uncle Sam's proteges come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers (a kind of paralysis), smallpox, gout, the stone, prickly heat, tetters or worms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prelude to Suicide | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

Contrasting vividly with the main feature, "Pacific Liner," is a dramatic adventure story with the crew dying of cholera, passengers "dancing on the lid of a coffin," and Wendy Barrie in the midst of it all looking very exotic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/11/1939 | See Source »

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