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This was a sharp sentimental blow to China. But militarily it meant little-whatever the Japanese claims. (Said Tokyo: Loyang's fall had "dealt a mortal blow against the U.S. air units . . . vainly seeking air bases within flying radius of the Japanese mainland...
...Greeks were men of action as well as thinkers. But ironically, says Author Mumford, their very sense of wholeness was the Greeks' undoing. Athenians began to see life not as a "spiral of change and development," but as a "superbly closed circle"-"life arrested meant art perfected." When mortal danger threatened them, in the form of Alexander the Great, the Greeks could not summon themselves to the excess of battle...
...mortal blow to the hopes of anti-Rooseveltians within the Democratic Party had been dealt by the primary triumphs of New Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill (TIME, May 15). More than ever the President looked like his Party's one & only hope in 1944. A Gallup poll indicated that 50% of those who plan to vote for him will vote for a Republican if Roosevelt does...
...hands and who think most sincerely that the best work they can do at this present time of hard effort and anxiety is to belabor the Government. . . . This National Government which has led the nation and empire and, as I hold, a large part of the world out of mortal danger, through the dark valleys into which they had wandered, largely through their own folly, back onto the broad uplands where the stars of peace and freedom shine, is reviled as a set of dawdlers and muddlers unable to frame a policy or take a decision or make a plan...
Queen's Choice. Rich, suave, 70-year-old Prince Stirbey was the longtime lover of the late Queen Marie of Rumania, the mortal foe of her moody son, ex-King Carol, the presumed father of her youngest daughter, Ileana.* Now the loyal aging go-between was embarked on one last attempt to save the trembling kingdom for his loved liege's grandson, young King Mihai...