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This tale of a neglected wife who poses as a seductive twin sister to win back her husband was called "a threat to the institution of marriage" by church and moral groups, who made M.G.M. take it back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by...

Author: By H. B., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Basilisk. To combat rebellion in Europe, it seemed logical that Germany should choose its bloodiest man. Reinhard Heydrich is six feet tall, lean, trim, yellow-haired, 37. He is pale, thin-nosed, thin-lipped. His features might be those of a great brutalitarian or a great ascetic. He is no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Pattern of Conquest | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

General Lee is middle-sized, thin-lipped, softspoken. He sports the proudest, fiercest thatch of mustache this side of London. His eyes are a pale, noncommittal blue, the right pupil marred by a splotch of white-a mark left by a polo ball 20 years ago.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: New G-2 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Country folks coming to town in their clean Sunday overalls and cotton dresses looked grimly at the new sights to be seen in Albany. They watched the young girls flitting in & out of the Club Room. In cars along the dark roads they heard high-school girls giggling unchildlike giggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: War Comes to All-Benny | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

The Guesser most interested in the fate of German subs in Yankee waters is thin-lipped, seam-faced, British-hating Vice Admiral Karl Doenitz, creator and Commander of Germany's U-boat fleet.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Deed Is All | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

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