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Foxy Mr. Farley. They could point to sly, cunning Jim Farley, the political prophet, who carefully, genially went about New York State encouraging Republicans to run Tom Dewey. The very ice water in Jim Farley's veins warmed up at the thought of Dewey, who has no appeal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People's Choice | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

The Yank Is Cunning. Ace instructor at the School is Bert ("Yank") Levy, guerrilla virtuoso, onetime Wintringham assistant, and author of Guerrilla Warfare (TIME, Mar. 16). Levy is a dramatic, 120-pound, black-haired expert on the art of unmodified murder whom the British regard as a delightful combination of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: Home Was Never Like This | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

WHEN LAST I DIED-Gladys Mitchell -Knopf ($2). This marks the welcome reappearance of Mrs. Adela Bradley, elderly, erudite and sardonic British dabbler in deduction. From an old diary she gets her first clue to a trio of brutal slayings, holds an eerie investigation of a houseful of poltergeists, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in May, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

Description. In Atlanta, a woman suing another for alienation of affections alleged that "although the defendant's countenance strongly resembles that of a starved and perished 'possum of the Chattahoochee River Valley, she possesses a peculiar cunning." She won $500 damages.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

General MacArthur continued to direct a defense that matched the Japanese attack in cunning. His line of communications between the Peninsula and Fort Corregidor remained open. His shore defense guns continued to blast Jap flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lull, Attack, Lull | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

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