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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the U. S. a Broadway columnist, Danton Walker of the New York Daily News, reported his interview with an unnamed astrologer. Said Walker's oracle of Adolf Hitler: "His chart clearly shows him to be in the ever-tightening grip of a mental disorder. Neptune, the planet of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Bible of all astrologers is the French prophet Nostradamus, who died in 1566, leaving behind him a book of cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Latest rumor in Europe's capitals was that Adolf Hitler had gone off to the front (after naming his successors) because his own astrologers had told him he would be killed in the first month of war.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: People's Augurs | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

World War I was hardly three weeks old when one William Ewert Berry, publisher of a modest group of British journals, came out with a weekly picture magazine: War Illustrated. Before the War ended and the Illustrated died, it had a circulation of 750,000 (record for its day) made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War Weeklies | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Far cry from the dim photography of 1914 is the technical brilliance of war pictures in the new Illustrated. Its 32 pages show British anti-aircraft guns and planes waiting for German raiders, Britons scurrying into air-raid shelters, their children evacuating London while German armies overrun Poland. Most of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War Weeklies | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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