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Cross-Ups. In Philadelphia, Mr. & Mrs. Walter Früs sued a telegraph company for $15,000 for the "anguish" they said they had been caused when Mr. Friis received a misdirected telegram from a strange woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...PAID HITLER - Fr!tz Thyssen - Farrar & Rinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man Who Was Wrong | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

This tool has been in the hands of science only a short time. Only in 1934 did Irene Curie* and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, first make ordinary elements such as iron and iodine radioactive so that they give off sub-atomic particles and gamma rays just as radium does. The invention of the cyclotron, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's great atom-smashing machine in California, simplified the manufacture of such elements so that they are now commonplace in physical laboratories. And in Copenhagen in 1935 O. Chiewitz and G. Hevesy first used such artificial radioactive elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Radioactive Flesh | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...much like those of the Western world. Dr. Sun Yatsen, who founded the Chinese Republic in 1912, stirred up many enthusiasms but not mass music. China did not get a national anthem until 1924, and that one never caught on. But the Chinese did pick up a Western round-Frère Jacques-to which they sang such sentiments as Down with the militarists, Down with the war lords, Down with oppression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Save, Save, Save China | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Advertising consists mainly of petites annonces at ten to 20 francs a line (50 fr. for annonces for missing children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: French Object Lesson | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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