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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germany, even in the Nazi Party, have any personal admiration for warp-minded, clubfooted Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels. But, according to reliable information from Germany last week, Adolf Hitler has made his ambitious Propaganda Minister unchallenged Nazi leader on the home front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Goebbels Up | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

Duke Ellington, genius of American jazz, comes to Harvard again tonight, when he appears in a Crimson Network interview at 11 o'clock. The great Negro pianist will answer questions put by Mac Passano '46, with Eugene C. Benyas '43, CRIMSON Swing columnist, also taking part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUKE ELLINGTON WILL VISIT HARVARD TONIGHT | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...General Jürgin von Arnim's veteran 10th moved forward against Fredendall's lightly held line. According to some reports, Rommel was lying wounded in a German hospital at Tunis; according to others, he had just been called to Russia. In any event, his hand and genius were clearly to be seen in what followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Worst Defeat | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...showed in realistic detail an edifice far beyond even Hollywood's most incredible fabrics. He also did a Garden of Eden Without Eve, filled with fauna, flora and far perspectives, which the Springfield (Mass.) Republican called "on a par with the extraordinary work of the French 19th-Century genius Rousseau. There can, of course, be no influence one from the other, but there is a strong . . . spiritual affinity between these two 'primitive' painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Idea | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...peaceful Seine also drew foreigners. The self-mutilated genius Vincent Van Gogh, a Dutchman, painted the Seine's golden Bridge at Asniéres. From the U.S. came Painter Frank Boggs, from England (in 1817) the short-lived Bonington, who painted the exhibition's orange-tinted view of Mantes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beloved River | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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