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...corset salesmen's convention, keeps a coachful of passengers laughing for an hour when a train is stalled. With his ski-slide nose and matching chin, he looks a little funny but he also looks normal, even personable, seems part of the landscape rather than the limelight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...though he hugs the limelight with a showman's depthless ego, in Hope himself is a hunger, or perhaps a final vanity, to reach people as a human being. For a performer who scarcely takes time out to live, perhaps it is the only way of being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Drugs new & old in the limelight last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Notes, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Drugs new & old in the limelight last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drug Notes, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...nations, of all commanders, of all units participating on the Allied side. This unity had to be achieved after some initial difficulties, and it was largely the handiwork of General Dwight D. Eisenhower. As commander of the whole Allied effort, he has kept himself rigidly out of the limelight, has exercised the greatest possible tact, and has contributed many ideas (the forced march of U.S. troops from El Guettar to the extreme north was an Eisenhower conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: How It was Done | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

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