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Died. Franklin Henry Hooper, 78, editor emeritus of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; of injuries when he was hit by a truck; in Saranac Lake, N. Y. After supervising five Encyclopaedia editions as managing or U. S. editor, he became editor-in-chief in 1932, retired two years ago. A dauntless pedestrian, Editor Hooper persistently flouted traffic signals, replied to friends' pleas for caution: "We are all going to die some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 26, 1940 | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...world will once again hear the tramp of the dauntless Roman Legions. The flashing eagles have been raised aloft to restore to Italy her historic position in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Italy in Arms | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...nostrils of the dauntless Mayor of Warsaw, "Stefan the Stubborn" Starzynski, as all Poles were calling him, stank last week the corpses of men and horses rotting in almost every street of Europe's fifth largest capital. More than 500 separate fires were blazing in Warsaw, covering the city with a choking lid of smoke and flame. The reservoirs were blasted and dry, the power plants smashed, and Nazi bombers, after destroying the Jewish Home for Crippled Children, had methodically blown to bloody smithereens all Warsaw hospitals, crammed with wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: Deutschland über Warsaw | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

...Reported well under way was the Princeton Radio Research Project's special Study of Mass Hysteria, investigating last fall's Orson Welles's invasion-from-Mars broadcast which deceived hosts of U. S. gullibles, including a dauntless pair of Princeton scientists who set right out to see what they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By-Products | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Vote for the Fatherland!" In Prague, although the sweeping catastrophe was obvious, editors took up the task of putting as bright an aspect on the situation as they could. The optimistic vigor of President Benes remained dauntless. As the Chief Executive, he at once turned on every organ of propaganda and reassurance to persuade Czech refugees from areas in which plebiscites are to be held to return to the homes from which they fled under Nazi threats and "Vote for the Fatherland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Brave Retreat | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

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