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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deputy. Alter ego of the Chief of Staff is his deputy, who acts as adjutant between the Chief and the rest of the staff and bosses the show when the Chief is away. In the past 14 months, he has made six circuits of the continental U. S., side trips (mostly by air) to Hawaii, Panama, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, and his deputy, balding 60-year-old Brigadier General William Bryden, has had plenty to do. Crack Artilleryman Bryden commanded artillery brigades in 1917-18, is the only member of the staff who was a general officer in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Military Brains | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...Buddhism, on such problems as the possibility of an animal's attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: British Buddhist | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

...audience with: "the first six guys in my room get free chocolate malteds." He also invites faculty guest speakers, fills in with programs of popular records. Under the magisterial eye of Dartmouth President Ernest H. Hopkins, Broadcaster Dryfoos has to avoid records like Bruz Fletcher's Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac, or She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor. Keep it clean, the administration warns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Ivy Networks | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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