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...have quoted Lenin in a phrase that should be copied in large black letters and pasted all over the free world: "The soundest strategy in war is to postpone operations until the moral disintegration of the enemy renders the delivery of the mortal blow possible and easy" [TIME, Sept...
...Johnny Weissmuller in B.V.D. bathing trunks helped start the fad of topless swimming trunks for men. With the late Cinemactress Jean Harlow as a model, B.V.D. helped start the trend toward skirtless, one-piece bathing suits for women. But in 1934, Hollywood dealt men's underwear a near-mortal blow. In It Happened One Night, Clark Gable took off his shirt, and revealed that he wore no undershirt. Sales of men's underwear in the U.S. dropped 40% in a single year...
...test data remained secret. The Navy would only say that Pilot Bridgeman had climbed higher and flown faster than any mortal. But he had done it as a scientist, busy watching his instruments, recording information for later study. There had been no time for even a glance at the sky, and Bridgeman had only one tantalizing comment on his high, wild ride: in the first few seconds of rocket flight, he said, "you feel like you're going right on out of this world...
...Catholic Church had strongly rallied to De Gasperi's side. The archbishops and bishops of Tuscany proclaimed: "Voters who give their votes to parties professing doctrines contrary to the Catholic faith commit a mortal sin." Why had Church intervention not produced a bigger anti-Communist vote? Explained the Vatican's Osservatore Romano: Not all Italians "born Catholic, and even professing still to be so, are .. . faithful followers of the Church...
...last week's shooting, there were indications that the rival United Press might be in more immediate danger of being squeezed out of Argentina. U.P. had long supplied an elaborate overseas news report (under a fat $8,000-a-week contract) to Perón's mortal foe, La Prensa. The very charge on which Perón expropriated La Prensa was that it relied on U.P.'s service and was therefore a foreign-bossed enterprise. In a recent chat with Reuters' Buenos Aires chief, Perón reportedly accused the U.S. agencies of "spying...