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Biographer Forbes (A Mirror for Witches, O Genteel Lady!) is a persistent rummager in regional attics. She sometimes dotes a little too much on research (even noting a change in the size of the armholes of the Governor of Massachusetts' coat). But her life of Paul Revere is: 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Early American | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

No. 2 Man. As his second in command, Nelson chose craggy, red-faced Engineer William Batt Sr., former president of big S.K.F. Industries (ball bearings). Able, levelheaded Bill Batt has worked with Nelson since NDAC, was one of the first men to recognize that Washington's defense sights were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Takes Over | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Forward: Small station KCKN in Kansas City, Kans. last week was broadcasting a serial reading of Clarence Streit's famous book Union Now. A levelheaded zealot, Streit argues for immediate federal union of the U.S., England and the democratic dominions as a means of winning the war and forming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Long Views | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Soon after the President's blast, Ambassador Winant appeared in Vice President Wallace's office. Besides the Vice President, four Senators were there: Texas' portly Tom Connally, Alabama's tall, drawling Lister Hill, South Carolina's Jimmy Byrnes, Georgia's Senator George. The Ambassador...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: What Winant Said | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

In entering his 80th year, Walter Damrosch had better to boast of than his operas (he wrote three others, The Scarlet Letter, The Dove of Peace, The Man Without a Country). No man living has one more for good music in the U. S. than he. Born of a famed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Old Dr. Damrosch | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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