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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Netherlands' border police last week took into custody Gerrit Albrink, 30, son of a Nazi member of the Dutch Parliament, employe of a German garage owner now serving with the Nazi Air Force. In Albrink's car when he tried to drive into Germany were an assortment of Dutch uniforms-soldiers', railroad guards', postmen's-obviously not intended for a fancy dress ball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES: No Hari | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Dahlov Zorach Ipcar, 22, now lives with her husband, Adolph, on William Zorach's farm at Robinhood, Me. She plows, pitches hay and looks after the horses, does not milk or drive a car. She still finds time to paint farm and hunting scenes, recently did a mural through the SFA (see below) for the post office at La Follette, Tenn. Last month she bore her first child, a son. Dahlov got her own name from a song the Zorachs used to sing to her about "Mama, Daddy love 'um." Her older brother Tessim's name came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dahlov | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

Unless Premier Viacheslav Molotov pulls a dove out of his hat addressing a session of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union this week (an unlikely possibility), the last phase of the peace drive petered to a close last week at Castel Gandolfo, Italy. One after the other the world's Big Men-Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Roosevelt, Chamberlain-had reneged, bungled, excused or disqualified themselves from the job of proposing the one Big Plan the world had spent two months hoping for-a Peace Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: No Dove | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...realigned, the throttles adjusted so that all wheels (each has a separate motor) would turn at the same speed. Finally it started out for Boston, whence the Byrd expedition is to sail, with Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, veteran Byrdman, at the controls. Dr. Poulter perforce learned to drive as he went along. At Columbia City, Ind., he had a slight collision with a truck, but continued. Near Lima, Ohio, aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Philbrook was formerly Donor Phillips' million-dollar Italianate mansion. Its first exhibition featured borrowed paintings. But Tulsans put on a $50,000 drive to buy art for themselves, and by the opening lad raised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philophile | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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