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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The hot afternoon sun of June 10 was almost down the heavens of western Eu rope when Dictator Benito Mussolini stepped out on his balcony in the Palazzo Venezia at Rome to announce that now, the Allies' darkest hour in nine months of fighting against Germany, was Italy'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEDITERRANEAN THEATRE: Enter Italy | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

In the past fortnight the Federal Communications Commission has handed down two momentous decisions, one releasing Frequency Modulation broadcasting from the confines of experiment, the other locking television tight within it. By awarding FM the number one television sending band (44,000-50,000 kilocycles), FCC opened the heavens to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: FM to Town | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

Dressed warmly, his radio turned low, Astronomer Gustaf Strömberg of the Mount Wilson Observatory spends night after night looking up at a great curved slit of the heavens. Born at Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientist on Immortality | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

In Durer's print, "The Trinity," we can see a combination of two divergent points of view which are probably the results of this Gothic-Renaissance mixture dominating the cultural atmosphere within which Durer lived. There is a strange blend of the real and the symbolic in this particular picture...

Author: By Jack Wilner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 4/20/1940 | See Source »

Last week, as the U. S. prepared for the great act - now only seven months away - of choosing its next President, it became apparent, notwithstanding such beliefs, that U. S. citizens have no dearth of potential Presidents to choose from. Whoever is elected President next November 11, the heavens will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Men A-Plenty | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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