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...writer," writes Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Aug. 4), "has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Although the Navy Department in a statement last week promised to inform veterans organizations on the methods of obtaining World War II and American Theater Medals for their members, they have not yet done so according to Stanley G. Karson '48, AVC chairman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy Mum to AVC on World War II Medals | 8/8/1947 | See Source »

...Prefer not to answer this question. A writer has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: HEMINGWAY IN THE AFTERNOON | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...month before burial). Burma now had a martyr and a legend. The Bogyok's A.F.P.F.L. party was more popular than ever, but its leadership had been almost obliterated. British Governor Sir Hubert Elvin Rance (who gets assassination threats almost every day) announced to Burmans: "I am glad to inform you that . . . Thakin Nu [the murdered leader's right-hand man] has agreed to form a new council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: End of Bogyok | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...given the choice between the gas chamber and continuing to live indefinitely in this insect-ridden place, eating two bowls of soup a day and not even having plumbing, I would choose the gas chamber." Like a Teutonic Lysistrata, she offered a general recipe for ending war: "Women should inform the men that if war comes they will refuse to conceive any more children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: The Women | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

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