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Dr. Goebbels ordered the Boersen-Zeitung to print the suggestion that the hero of Tobruk, after the fashion of ancient Rome's great Scipio, be dubbed "Rommel Africanus." Since the eleventh edition of Rommel's Infantry Attacks had all but disappeared from German bookshops, Dr. Goebbels commanded that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Goebbels' Hero | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Before Hitler's smash at Russia, fewer than twelve U.S. cinemansions were showing Soviet films. As Russian resistance to Hitler's onslaught rose, so did Americans' curiosity. At present nearly 200 theaters are playing Soviet pictures, 2,000 carry their short subjects. Variety, the bible of U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

A man of wealth, affable and loquacious Dr. Souchon sells few of his pictures because he doesn't want to compete unfairly with fellow artists who have to make a living with paint. But occasionally some art lover manages to talk him into a sale. He chortles: "If any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painting Doctor | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Washington called the naval damage "serious." admitted at least one "old" battleship and a destroyer had been sunk, other ships of war damaged at base. Meanwhile Japan took to the radio to boast that the U.S. Navy had suffered an "annihilating blow." Crowed the Japs: "With the two battleships [sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Dressed in a seamy old coat and patched cotton-sack apron. Patriarch Carver puttered about his memorial museum at Tuskegee last week, unpacking, dusting and hanging his life work as an artist. One of his paintings, a larger-than-life-size picture of a yucca plant, was half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Black Leonardo | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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