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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lucifer (see cut) which looked something like a winged cigar-store Indian. It was less likely than his prodigiously progenitorial Adam to be exhibited by others for a cheap pornographic thrill (TIME, April 29, 1940). Lucifer had been modeled in clay, then cast in bronze, possessed the refined detail peculiar to modeled figures...
...firm footing right along. It had a plan for merger (see chart); moreover, it was willing to accept any other plan which embodied the principles of unified command, plus an independent air force, for which even ground generals enthusiastically fought. Its mind was open to changes in detail. But the Navy had no adequate plan to replace or revise the present system of divided administration and command - aside from a report made by Financier Ferdinand Eberstadt over which Navymen themselves could not agree...
...Frank Lillyman, a captain in the 101st Airborne Division, the dreams became obsessions. On Christmas Day at Bastogne, he hunched over in the icy rain to scribble his dreams on paper. As he moved with the 101st across Germany, he kept adding to the list. It finally included every detail of a soldier's vision of heaven...
Last week, while the hotel staff turned itself inside out (and the public-relations man made hay with the story), Mister Lillyman, Jane and Susie lived his dream down to its minutest detail (a Maraschino cherry on top of each scoop of ice cream in their triple-scoop banana splits). Lillyman and Susie took it in their stride (see cut), but it was almost too much for Mrs. Lillyman. Said she: "He's always been a champagne dreamer...
This report was in keeping with the pattern of economic agreements already woven around Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland. If true in detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...