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Meanwhile, the Eighth Air Force's Gentile, a crack airman who had been embarrassed by his command's extraordinary method of making top man of him, worked might & main to run his score of ships shot down in the air from 23 to the mystic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE SKIES: Bong | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

...Blood. President Martínez is a mystic who came to power in 1931. He first won election as Vice President, then arranged an army revolt, kicked out the President and took over the country. A dark and slender Indian who calls himself a theosophist, he used to proclaim: "The invisible legions follow me." After twelve years of his rule, his countrymen are ready to believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: Haunted Theosophist | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Because Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch has an almost mystic reputation as the Man Who Can Solve Anything, the Baruch Report issued last week was widely and wrongly billed as a complete postwar blueprint. This impression was reinforced by its sheer bulk: 120 mimeographed pages, 30,000 words, one pound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Baruch Program | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Diminuendo-l | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...Mystic Maize. In The Bronx, N.Y., Charles P. Cobb had his name changed to Howard DeP. Indiancorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 13, 1943 | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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