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Late in the war, two B-17 bombers collided over Belgium at 13,500 ft., and one of them was sheared in two. From the main section, one crewman succeeded in bailing out, but the rest crashed to their deaths. In the tail, Joe Frank Jones Jr., a 19-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: There Was Such a Feeling of Joy | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

On the other side of the Iron Curtain, today a gash of electrified fences and minefields, the challenge that began on V-E day has had very different dimensions. For the nations of Eastern Europe, the prospect of a new, democratic postwar era vanished with Stalin's unkept pledge to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: V-E Day: From Rubble To Renewal | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

As CBS plots its defense against Ted Turner, it will undoubtedly take a close look at a ploy that was set in motion last week by Unocal, which is trying to escape a take-over bid by T. Boone Pickens. A partnership led by Pickens, who is chairman of Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Name Your Poison | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

In his letters, Jarrell struggled constantly with his contradictory urges to chastise and create. When Edmund Wilson praised him for a review, he wrote back expressing thanks and explaining, "Of course I care about [my] poems a million times more." In another letter he summarized an essay he was contemplating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Love Affair with Learning | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

Try as it may, E.F. Hutton, the fifth-largest U.S. brokerage firm, cannot escape an ongoing scandal. In fact, the company seems to become enmeshed ever deeper in suspicions and allegations. In May, Hutton was fined $2 million plus legal costs after pleading guilty to 2,000 counts of mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: E.F. Hutton's Simmering Scandal | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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