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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schiebst Du?" It is nearly two and a half years since V-E day, and anyone who wants to realize how long a time that is need only listen to Germans. In May 1945 the Germans, humbly incoherent, thought the conquerors would impose their will on Germany, and that their will would be a German democracy. Instead, in each zone, the occupying power tried to set up a German administration in its own image. Not even the Russians succeeded...
Last summer, in an across-the-border display of short tempers (TIME, Aug.11, 25), Canadian railroads were accused of sticky slowness in returning empty U.S.-owned coal cars. Last week the shoe was on the other foot. At the season when Canada's need of boxcars was greatest-to move the grain harvest from prairie to port-U.S. railroads were far behind in their return of closed cars...
Scratch a football coach, and you generally find a man who fancies himself an amateur psychologist. Among Crisler's homemade convictions is the belief that a coach's approach to his players should vary with their national origins. Italian boys, he says, need encouragement because they are lethargic in action. Scandinavians are the hardest to stir up ("I begin needling them on Tuesday"). He plasters the locker-room wall with cautionary signs. This season the warnings are directed against overconfidence. Says one: "There are no savings deposits in football. It's what you do in each game...
Spectacular Frames. New aluminum spectacle frames were put on sale by Manhattan's Tura Co. The new frames (trade name: Turalite) are slightly lighter than thick plastic ones, need no rivets, solder or cement, and are virtually unbreakable. They come in twelve colors impregnated in the metal. Present production: 8,000 a week. Price...
Author Mauriac is no peddler of religious tracts; one need not share his faith to appreciate his virtues as a novelist. Few of his characters achieve spiritual peace, but they get rid of the self-deception that stands...