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...mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARIZONA: The Devil's Highway | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...read aloud in the refectory he smuggled in and substituted for The Life of St. Peter of Alcantara a ... tract entitled When Eva Stole the Sugar" He also set fire to the newspaper Father Despard was reading in the common room. "Asked why ... he laughed and answered, 'The Devil finds work for idle hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodness Made Readable | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Very Good, Jeeves | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

With recent developments in the Near East pointing toward increasing ferment in the Arab world, Philip W. Ireland, instructor in Government, yesterday pointed out that many Arab leaders, though by no means the majority, are willing to enter into alliance with the devil himself if that means promoting the Arab nationalist movement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arabs to Fight on Side of Winners | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Chubby, Irish-tempered Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell once won an Academy Award for his notable performance on the back seat of a careening stage coach. Last week, filming The Devil & Daniel Webster on a California lot, Character Mitchell rode again, this time holding the reins himself. The horses charged through two sets, smashed the old-style buggy against a tree, tossed Driver Mitchell to the ground with skull contusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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