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Executive Secretary John J. Kearney of the Bartenders and Waiters Union testified that the night club patron blamed indirectly for the holocaust was a sailor who unscrewed a light bulb to darkon a corner so he could "mug" his girl friend...
...bags. But more supplies are in prospect and U.S. coffee-fiends need not fear any immediate shortage. Meanwhile the Army is boosting U.S. coffee consumption to all-time records. A soldier drinks 45 lb. of coffee a. year, twice as much as the average citizen; to fill his mug at least five times a day the Quartermaster Corps has already bought over 600,000 bags, is in the market for at least that much more. Anticipating this off-balance supply & demand situation, coffee prices started rising a year ago, were about to run away when Henderson slapped on a price...
...picture that will make you think. Aside from the Shavian philosophy, it is undoubtedly one of the best directed, acted, and photographed pictures of the last few years. Wendy Hiller as Major Barbara, Robert Morley as Andrew Underschaft, and a newcomer named Robert Newton as Bill Walker, the tough mug who turns a leaf, all turn in brilliant performances. Here at last is a picture which credits the average movie-goer with more brains than a fourteen-year-old, and even if it is often too subtle and confusing. "Major Barbara" may be set down as a major achievement...
...Letters, Feb. 9, you disclose that "another TIME reader, who found Hitler's mug on the cover, used it for a dart target...
Jack Unjaded. In Australia, before John Curtin became Prime Minister last year, his people used to call him "Jaded Jack." Behind his gold spectacles and his mild, professorial mug he was meek enough. His best friends said that for all his wondrous vocabulary, his skill at political infighting, his long labors for Australian labor, he lacked the guts and drive of a first-class leader. He was to Australian politics what William Edgar Borah, the late Thaddeus H. Caraway and other Senate gadflies were to the U.S.: a born oppositionist who talked a great government, but seemed to shy from...