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...Look, son Elliott took readers on a tour of the U.S.S. Augusta, at anchor in Argentia Bay, where F.D.R. and Churchill met to frame the Atlantic Charter. Excerpt: "Churchill's neck reddened, he crouched forward. 'Mr. President, England does not propose for a moment to lose its favored position among the dominions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Secretaries & Sons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Large sections of the article (which was an excerpt from Elliott's forthcoming book As He Saw It) were printed in the London press. Snorted the Daily Mirror: "The book proves nothing except that great men often have silly sons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Secretaries & Sons | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...G.I.S and British brides, the following excerpt is taken from a letter which I recently received from Miss Edna Scotchmer of London, who was my secretary in London during 1943 when I was employed there as a civilian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...Ribbentrop's protestation that he had been a statesman, not a Storm Trooper. Declared the prosecution: he had specifically approved the lynching of Allied flyers, and had labored long and hard to break the world's peace. Introduced as evidence: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano. Excerpt: " 'Well, Ribbentrop,' I asked him . . . 'what do you want? The Corridor or Danzig?' 'Not any longer,' and he fixed on me those cold Musée Grévin eyes of his. 'We want war.' " (In the dock, Ribbentrop shook his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Under the Hammer | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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