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Paramount must be credited, to be sure, with letting Mr. Cooper murmur the no longer sensational news that Spain was a training ground for World War II. But that is about as impressive as the hind sight volubility of an upside-down parrot. Considering the particular hour and climate of world history which the Bell dramatizes, Paramount's executives have kept an almost divine political detachment. Says Chairman of the Board Adolph Zukor: "It is a great picture, without political significance. We are not for or against anybody." Says Director Sam Wood: "It is a love story against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: For Whom? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Envelopment from the Sky | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...knew what that rushing sound was trying to say, It had all been said before. It had saddened and sobered him when sounds of departure had only been a murmur, but now the sound of hopeful goodbyes was a deep chorus. It didn't matter much what had gone before, it would come again. What mattered was that the waiting which had never been anything but waiting was at an end. There would be no more gradual, lonely leavings. It was all at once and all together now and too important to be lonely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 5/27/1943 | See Source »

...said the Father Prior, "it is just as impossible for you to acquire grace by doing nothing except murmur 'Amita-Buddha' all day long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Madame | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Army's physical examiners in Manhattan young Dan Lurie unveiled the flabbergasting body that had won him the title of "Most Muscular Man in America" in 1942. Despite the fact that he could do 1,625 pushups, back to body building went Lurie, rejected for a slight heart murmur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 15, 1943 | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

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