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Stephen Vincent Benet's "The Devil and Daniel Webster" won the Saturday Evening Post short story contest a couple of years ago. Now the whimsical story of Faust in New Hampshire has been made into a movie. "All That Money Can Buy" seems well on its way to winning an equally conspicuous niche in moviedom's hall of fame...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/7/1942 | See Source »

...British officialdom. Churchill, said U Saw, was "very blunt," adding that he himself had been very blunt in return. As the ultra-nationalist Premier left Britain for Burma, via the U.S., he remarked Delphically that the Japanese were very clever people and that "we would rather trust the devil we know than the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: U Saw's Bet | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Devil: "Who's there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/23/1942 | See Source »

...Devil: "You're supposed to go to Heaven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/23/1942 | See Source »

...Lone Wolf. The first to mobilize was Tom Girdler. His career of devil-may-care unpopularity had come to a climax in a 1940 Roosevelt campaign speech, when the President used his name as a synonym for enemy-of-the-people. Shortly thereafter Girdler put out feelers to Washington and decided to quit fighting C.I.O. That was now kid stuff; the big leaguers were fighting Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom, Shortages, Taxes, War | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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