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...British high court last week upheld the conviction of a Scotswoman charged with practicing witchcraft. To jail for nine months, technically as a violator of a 1735 law forbidding "conjuration of the devil and evil spirits," went 46-year-old Mrs. Helen Duncan, a spiritual medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: There Was Ectoplasm | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Major General Claire Chennault, easing along a Chinese dance floor, ranked no higher than any man with a captivating partner, when a chipper, dare-devil-named corporal Christopher Colombo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 3, 1944 | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Passengers were devil-may-care businessmen or vacationers. Baker kept his line going by doing everything himself. When a passenger arrived at the field George stopped sweeping up the hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: National Heads North | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Hatfields and McCoys (". . . they wuz reckless mountain boys . . .") were discovered by American Magazine to be feuding no more.† Rooming together and working at a Maryland war plant June Hatfield, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and Susie McCoy, great-granddaughter of Clan Leader Randall McCoy. They visit each other's families without resort to arms, and June plans to marry a real McCoy some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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