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...Gustave Adolf Hess Jr. is a U.S. Army volunteer. > Several U.S. organizations tried to forward firearms to fork-wielding Farmer David McLean. > In Cairo, Hess's old nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute...
Flotsam appeared first in the summer of 1939 as a serial in Collier's, next as the sincere, ineffective film So Ends Our Night (TIME, Feb. 10). In its final form, the result of a year's revision, it is worthy of an author who is responsible for the best novel about World War I, two of the best about post-war Germany...
...noted with keen interest your item in the Press section of the Feb. 17 issue-"Often sued for libel, Publisher William Randolph Hearst has never sued in return." Is there not an error here? In 1911 Hearst filed a $500,000 libel suit against Collier...
...TIME erred. Publisher Hearst has avoided bringing suits for libel in recent years, but in his palmy days he sued often. His suit against Collier's in 1911 was provoked by a story in the magazine averring that favorable notices were for sale in Hearst's New York Journal under the names of Arthur Brisbane and Beatrice Fairfax...
...fences, tinsel hung on gun emplacements, in basement shelters under their smoking towns. Reminiscent of the blasted countryside and ruined cities in H. G. Wells's Things to Come is the bleak, dark, stormy landscape of Christmas Under Fire. But inside are the same cheerful Britishers Quentm Reynolds, Collier's London correspondent, provides a solemn script solemnly narrated...