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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One of the most colorful war correspondents in Asia today is TIME'S Teddy White. He has short legs, a freckled face, a cocky walk, an indomitable spirit, a compassion for suffering people and a curiosity which would cost a cat all nine of its lives in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

"We must not be betrayed by our feelings of humanity and compassion into courses of action which might postpone the day of liberation."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: We Must Not Be Betrayed | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

But the horse was only Bergh's first compassion. To arrest inhumane butchers, Bergh sometimes waded ankle-deep in blood through the slaughterhouses, braved barrages of pigs' feet, entrails and cows' livers. Undaunted by flying pails of swill, he invaded the dairies of uptown Manhattan, nauseated milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Humanitarian | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Harvard, to this City Hall defender, is no big overgrown colossus, but an irresponsible, arrogant institution, that has to be tolerated since "education is a necessary thing." Mickey will talk any time about the underhanded way Harvard forced hundreds of people out of their homes in order to build some...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTE | 5/19/1942 | See Source »

Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bishop's Question | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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