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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 63-year-old Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you) was mad again. What irked him this time was the death of the Progressive Party (TIME, March 25). A faithful disciple of old "Fighting Bob" La Follette, he had been convention chairman at the party's birth at Fond du Lac in 1934. For most of its life, he was the movement's editorial mouthpiece. Confronted with the party's corpse, he refused to call it suicide. It was murder, he cried. He demanded an autopsy, accused the La Follette brothers of killing the party "by kidnapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life with Evjue | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

Canada and the Athlones had grown genuinely fond of each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: PARLIAMENT: Sad Farewell | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Anita Kube, his blond wife, had bragged all over Minsk about her household staff of a dozen servants. "Twelve Russian swine," she was fond of repeating, in her arrogant Nazi way, "are cheaper than one good German maid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Servant Problem | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Fond of most sports, he plays golf in the gos, plays tennis all the year round (in winter in the $500,000 Tennis House which his father & friends had built near by). When he can get away, he takes his wife skiing, or goes duck-hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Young Henry Takes a Risk | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Homma, who flew from Tokyo as a character witness for her husband, described him to reporters as a bookish poet, "kind and considerate to his wife, servants and children." He dabbled in Chinese poetry, liked "serious literature," was especially fond of Galsworthy and Shaw. His favorite English-language novel: Gone With the Wind. (Army Intelligence said that he read a chapter nightly on Bataan before retiring, asked Tokyo to rush him the movie "when the Japanese land in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Footnotes to War II | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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