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...Yugoslavs pointed out: "It is one thing to conquer the Komitajis' territory; it is another thing to conquer the Komitaji." This week was Orthodox Holy Week, and devout men like General Simovitch (who was not too devout, however, to divorce his first wife and marry one of the handsomest women in Yugoslavia) threw a religious fervor into their fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: Weakness Defies Strength | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Minnesota's Farmer-Laborite (running on the Republican ticket) Henrik Shipstead is defeated (by Democratic Attorney John E. Regan, or by onetime Governor Elmer Austin Benson), the Senate loses one of its handsomest nonentities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Also Running | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Driving through London last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER-UNEXPLODED BOMB...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

...kidnapped seven years ago, ransomed for $60,000. The Boettcher family put up $193,000, enabled Denver's Board of Education to get a PWA grant and build a $384,000 school. Designed in pale green concrete and glass by famed Architect Burnham Hoyt, it was easily the handsomest and best-equipped school for crippled children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cripples' School | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...drowsy day in 1895 Catherine Evans, a farm girl from Dalton, Ga., journeyed back into the hills to visit a cousin. There she saw a pair of family-heirloom "candlewick" bedspreads, the handsomest bedspreads she had seen in all her born days. Back she went to Dalton. learned to make them herself. Soon hardly a wedding anywhere around was complete unless the bride got one of Catherine Evans' bedspreads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Catherine Evans1 Bedspreads | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

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