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...power to stop the rolling stone before it gathered an avalanche to swallow them all, as Mari of Peace Mussolini did this time last year when he persuaded Hitler to call off his Army before Munich. Count Ciano's answer, heartily concurred in by Premier Mussolini: mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace on Earth | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

...Helen had flounced out of the house with the haughties, hired Skywriter Joe Jacobson to try to get her back. Across seven miles of sky, in letters half a mile high, Airman Jacobson skywrote: "Wiggie loves Helen." The unfeeling wind smudged the message into illegibility, and Wife Helen kept mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 31, 1939 | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

Month ago Pope Pius XII, alarmed by the apparent imminence of war, secretly sent peace appeals to the heads of European States, first step, perhaps, of a plan to mediate in frightened Europe. Although widely heralded in the world's press, the Vatican kept mum, issued no statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Assurances | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...that book appeared, Author Rosten was in Washington, working on a serious journalistic survey, The Washington Correspondents. Sly Author Rosten enjoyed hearing correspondents chuckle over Hyman Kaplan, ask who Leonard Q. Ross might be. Afraid they might not take his research job seriously if they knew, Author Rosten kept mum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tinsel | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...Columbia University's crack Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink in 1933, has never been industrially developed. Researchers of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. are reported to have hit on a promising technique, but they are keeping it under wraps for the present. Mr. Bach, skeptical of patent protection, kept mum about his method for quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Colored Steel | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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