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Scene. Having the initiative was their fundamental advantage and General Gam elin moved cautiously to retain it. The sector he chose for his first move against Germany's "impregnable" Westwall (or Limes Line*) was the 100-mi, stretch from Lauterbourg on the Rhine, northwest to the Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...immediately established in a housekeeping apartment or at the smart comfortable Riverside Hotel. Excessively exclusive folk go to the TH dude ranch 30 miles away, or to Mounte Crese ranch 18 miles away. Loneliness soon vanishes in the colony's common purpose. Di versions are plentiful. Fashionable gam bling, dancing, drinking are wide-open. Such roadhouses as the Willows are in easy reach. Calneva Lodge on the border attracts many who play golf and tennis in California, sleep in Nevada. Time passes quickly, enjoyably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUSBANDRY: New Freedom | 9/15/1930 | See Source »

...secured by public law), and economic (Jews as a group were to finance their impoverished coreligionists). The religious aspect of Zionism has become practically nil. Formerly many influential Jews opposed Zionism. Now few do.* Zionism became a political actuality during and after the World War when the Allies to gam Jewish support in Central is well as Allied countries, promised Zionists to give them political rights in Palestine. Jews expected that that would give them a Jewish Nation, of which Jews everywhere might become citizens if they wished. The League of Nations created a Palestine Mandate. Great Britain took government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zionists | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...toms and tabbies. Judges pulled fur, pried open eyes, thumped sides, tabulated their conclusions. Best cat in the show: Lavender Choice of Runnymede. blue male. Best of opposite sex: Pansy 0-So-Bonne, blue-eyed white. Best novice: Saxby Silver Miss Floss. Best novice of opposite sex: Ming Quong Gam Sing Quah, Siamese male. Best two kittens: North-ledge Desperado, Azurine Allure of Silver-land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Fish, Flesh & Fowl | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

Sued for Divorce. "Nicky" Arnstein, famed bond-thief and gam- bling-house-man, by Actress Fanny Brice. For years she sang a song, Mon Homme, with the line, "For whatever my man is, I am his forevermore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

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