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Died. Carl Crow, 61, author, Missouri-born "old China hand" and founder-editor of the Shanghai Evening Post, whose shrewd anecdotal study of the Chinese, Four Hundred Million Customers, the fourth of his 13 books, made best-seller lists in 1937; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Allen B. Crow, president of the Economic Club of Detroit, reported that almost all of 200-odd business and professional leaders he had questioned consider U.S. higher education a waste of time & money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Teaching in America | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Krueger's nature to worry; 46 years in the army had increased, if that were possible, his innate stolidity. Worry, he once said, is a feminine trait; then he added, with one of those unexpected smiles which deepen the parenthetic lines about his mouth and the crow's-feet beside his eyes, "When the chips are down, women are usually less nervous than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Old Soldier | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...F.D.R. will so talk, he is also sure of the support of the British, who-however bravely they may crow-do not relish the prospect of being left alone in Europe with the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Genial Blackmail | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

Next day the Communist Unità gave out a screech that smothered Cantachiaro's crow: "A weekly paper which calls itself satiric and anti-Fascist printed yesterday the complete text of Mussolini's speech, thus offering readers a most beautiful piece of Fascist propaganda. . . . This is an act of evident collaboration ... an act of sabotage. . . . The paper which does it must be suppressed and the responsible person arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Silenced Chanticleer | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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