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...Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic for the New York Herald. Three years later, in 1908, Nathan was introduced to H. L. Mencken. Stanley had met Livingstone in what both men felt to be darkest America...
Things looked darkest for the European Army just before the NATO session began (TIME, Feb. 25). Then four men gathered in London. Sitting down with Lisbon's Big Three-Acheson of the U.S., Eden of Britain, Schuman of France-was a man who was not even invited to Lisbon: Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. They met because West Germany's price for joining the European Army had collided head on with France's price for letting Germany...
...from the towering cataracts of Victoria Falls, in darkest Africa, 20th Century civilization was fighting a hapless battle with the denizens of the jungle. It wasn't lions, leopards, elephants or crocodiles; they had capitulated without a struggle. It was baboons...
...Landscapes. These have the advantage of being suitable for kitchens, and of staying sunny on the darkest days. The Good Old Days is a first try at calendar art by a Hollywood scene painter named Paul Detlefsen. It owes something to Currier & Ives, and depends a good deal on memories to invest its neat detail with a breath of life...
...Britain's darkest hour after Dunkirk, Winston Churchill called on his countrymen to defend their island home by joining an unpaid citizens' militia, which he christened the Home Guard. Nearly 2,000,000 Britons stepped forward. Armed at first with pitchforks, pikes and shotguns, they guarded Britain's coasts until the fear of invasion passed. When the Home Guard stood down in 1944, it was a tough, well-drilled fighting force, bristling with Tommy guns, dagger bayonets and U.S. .300-cal. rifles...