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Not police nor FBI, but the 200 operatives of the little Secret Service, whose other job is guarding the President & family, hunt counterfeiters in the U. S. Last week its parent department, the U. S. Treasury, announced that the S. S. had gone far toward cleaning them out. An educational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENCY: Funny Money | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Jean Giono, 44, is a burly, self-educated French-Italian hillbilly, whom critics have called "one of the giants of modern French letters." He lives in a remote mountain village of the Basses-Alpes, writes unusual novels about hamhanded, muscularly poetic peasants against bright-colored, heroic landscapes. He eschews the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pastoral | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

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