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...have a good job at a shipyard but I would give it up if I could join the Air Forces WACs, but as I will not be 20 until December 1944, I am not eligible for any of the services. Why in the devil don't they lower the age limit...
...almost as rare as saints. One such rarity is the Oxford don, Clive Staples Lewis. In The Screwtape Letters (TIME, April 19, 1943) Author Lewis gave his readers Hell, and they liked it. Americans and Britons bought some 200,000 copies of these ironically instructive letters from an elderly devil in Hell to his callow young nephew on earth. But writers, as Dante and Milton knew, have usually felt more at home in Hell than in Heaven. Last week in Christian Behaviour (Macmillan; $1) Author Lewis succeeded in the much tougher task of making Heaven as readable as Hell...
...Flesh & the Devil, under the knowing direction of Clarence Brown, brought to their apogee the most glamorous wrestling team that ever paralyzed the cinecircuits, and drew from a wit of the period the inspired salute...
...Sups with the Devil. But the proclamation was something more than propaganda: it was a clue to Hitler's strength even in despair, a testimony to his sense of oneness with the German people (always excepting those whom he has confined, abused, murdered). Its awkward rationalizations might seem absurd to free Britons and Americans; they did not seem absurd to Germans who remembered, with Adolf Hitler, the penalties of defeat in World War I, and who now suffered the agonies of defeat in the skies...
Winston Churchill, defending his advocacy of an understanding with Russia, once declared: "I would make a pact with the devil himself if it would save England." Now Hitler twisted this symbolism: "It will not be Great Britain who will tame the Bolshevik devil, but Bolshevik poison will eat up Britain more and more and lead her to ultimate disintegration...