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TIME is still "curt, clear," but in reference to Death Valley Scotty (March 24) by no means "complete." Banker Gerard has no reason to hope for "a cut on the $1.10 Scotty took from tourists who came to gaze at his fancy desert residence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...less than most men between 42 and 52, and who has suffered no greater hurts than a finger broken in an automobile accident and a polyp removed from his larynx. The wig-like wad of hair which hangs across his forehead has no grey in it; nor has his curt mustache...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: A Dictator's Hour | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Milwaukee sister, Mrs. Martin Fladoes, Ruth Mitchell sent a curt cable. It said: "Am leaving for the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Tapped for Skull & Bones | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...Curt, Clear, Complete!" Nuts! Whodunit? A while ago you described an episode of mysterious book turning in the libraries at Harvard, and . . . you've never published the solution of the mystery. The suspense is giving us and TIME-reading friends . . . nightmares. . . . Let "complete" TIME complete this mystery and tell us, whodunit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...people learned two sickening truths. The Government came right out and said that the Nazis intended to march their Army across the land to attack Greece-i.e., there was nothing to be done about it. And the British Minister to Bulgaria, George William Rendel, answered this with a curt announcement: "If the Germans occupy Bulgaria and make it a base against our ally, obviously we shall have to break off relations with Bulgaria and take whatever measures the situation requires"-i.e., Britain would make war on Bulgaria, and nothing could be done about that either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Hitler Gets It | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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