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Though the people loved and knew by heart scores of the poet's stanzas, they were now massed to acclaim the dictator Caesar in a "howl of joy . . . victorious, violent, unbridled, fear-inspiring, magnificent, fawning, the mass worshiping itself in the person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 2,000 Years Apart | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Organized lycanthropy had become an instrument of the disintegrating Nazi State. Last week a female fanatic broadcast its lupine howl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Wolves of Vengeance | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

...good job: a chance to share in the making of history without any direct responsibility. The most legitimate criticism of his position comes from those who are dismayed over the immense influence he wields without being answerable to the people. Thus, while Hopkins' friends howl that he is the mere whipping boy for those who want to lash the President, his acts are, in effect, the President's; Franklin Roosevelt must accept responsibility for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presidential Agent | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...victory moved the networks to tear their hair and howl that they were not long for this world.* But it nailed down Fly's main objectives: 1) reduction of NBC from two chains to one (the Blue became a separate network); 2) the end of dual ownership (no one can now own two radio stations in a single city); 3) the stations' awareness of the fact that they also exist to serve their own communities and the public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Battler's Exit | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Hollywood Howl. When the complaint reached the U.S. last week, the indignant stars set up a howl of their own. Actress Goddard insisted that she had "played all but three days when I was ordered to bed by the Army physician." Comedian Brown, who has an outstanding record of devotion to soldier entertainment and whose soldier son was killed in a plane crash, angrily retorted that he "did all a 53-year-old man could do." The Hollywood Victory Committee blamed broken promises on Army snags, added that Ann Sheridan and Joel McCrea had both been , held up by lack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Short Circuit | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

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