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Long ago, foreign correspondents in Moscow gave up trying to guess what makes up the Kremlin's mind. When the lid of Soviet censorship was mysteriously lifted last month (TIME, Nov. 19), they got no explanations. Their am-I-dreaming-or-what stories went through untouched, and that was unexplained...
Last week 15 newly acquired Shang bronzes went on view in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. One of the cups had a tripod base which seemed to stand on tiptoe, and a lid in the shape of a swallow with outstretched wings and tail (see cut). The ambition to drink from the wings of a flying swallow might well have cost someone a kingdom...
...atom bomb) in the virtual extinction of the human race. The only visible survivors, a mother and daughter, were huddled near a rubble heap in the middle of Manhattan, which, blasted and fused by the bombs, elsewhere lay between its rivers as narrow, smooth and shiny as a coffin lid...
...overwhelming manpower was not mobilized until almost too late. When Hitler first massed his forces, the U.S., "in Terms of available strength, [was] not even a third rate military power." The next time such a thing happened, Marshall indicated, almost too late would be too late. He lifted the lid on some secrets to give emphasis to his warning. He quoted from a report of General of the Army Henry Arnold, boss of the Air Forces...
Nevertheless, lending institutions last week scrambled furiously to get themselves ready for installment buyers when the lid is lifted. The big credit companies led the way by slashing to an alltime low the interest rates to dealers for financing autos. Commercial Credit Co., C.I.T. Financial Corp. and General Motors Acceptance Corp. announced a drop from a prewar 4% to 3%. (The Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn., in San Francisco, went them one better...