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...addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late to get a campaign organized; the war had made a Third Term virtually certain; no businessman had a chance against the glamor of Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, these stubborn citizens still believed that Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: The Story of Wendell Willkie | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...last week, as war in the Mediterranean sliced across the Orient route of British Overseas Airways, globe-girdling Pan Am announced the opening of two new frontiers, and the glamor of new runs was back in the business again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: New Flights | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

That all is not what it seems is naturally well known to Lanny's father, Robbie Budd. A Yaleman sleek and capable as a panther, Robbie turns up in sudden glamor from time to time, goes swimming with his son, instructs him in the munitions game, warns him again & again that the coming war will be "for profit." Father and son have tea with the Munitions King, Zaharoff, who oddly begins to talk like Upton Sinclair: "Suppose some nation should decide that its real enemies are the makers of munitions? Suppose that instead of dropping bombs upon battleships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sinclair's War & Peace | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

When Bimelech was roundly trounced in the Kentucky Derby last fortnight, railbirds refused to pronounce him a cheese champion until they had seen him in another race. Last week, at Pimlico. 55,000 racing fans turned out to see Colonel Bradley's glamor colt run in the $75,000 Preakness, second of the Big Three U. S. races for three-year-olds (1/16 of a mile shorter than the Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Bim's Redemption | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...round, soundproof, redwood-paneled tour de force resembling a swanky silo. There Katharine Brush settled down at a 15-foot semicircular desk to turn out more novels, short stories, scenarios of the sort that had made her one of the highest-paid U. S. female novelists and the glamor girl of U. S. letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Success Story | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

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