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...AFTERMATH-The World Crisis- 1918-1928-Winston S. Churchill-Scrib- ner's ($5). The Sequel. The first volume of Mr. Churchill's The World Crisis was dedicated "To All Who Tried," the next "To All Who Endured"; this latest and last, "To All Who Hope." That is a strange title to give a pessimistic climax like this: "The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and before history began murderous strife was universal and unending. . . ." Moreover, "it was not until the dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Winnie the Poohbah | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

...sized lightweight blonde whose proper name is Lois Eleanor Delander, was judged on points to be the prize-winning Miss America 1927. Another prize-winner was Miss Frieda Louise ("New York") Mierse, 15 years old, who was judged to possess the beauty most suitable to an evening dress. Run-ner-up to "Miss America" was Miss Mozelle ("Dallas") Ransome, a small-sized bantamweight brunette. After winning the blue ribbon, Miss America, a 16-year-old schoolgirl, was asked what she would now do with herself. She said: "I am happy. ... I do not want to go in the movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Beauty Pageant | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

...body. The Italian fell down. It was obvious that he could rise no more, but at that instant the loud and insistent ringing of a bell informed his sup porters that the round was over and that it behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fisticuffs | 7/12/1926 | See Source »

...Passed a bill for the restoration of Fort McHenry, Baltimore, the birthplace of the Star Spangled Ban ner. (Went to Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Mar. 2, 1925 | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

When a child, lying awake, thinks he sees a horrifying shape in the cor- ner, or hears all night long in the dark and rain a man go riding by, the direct cause of his fear is always slight. Light huddles the darkness in a queer way, or someone has told him a story about highwaymen. It is only the trick of associating a slight concrete thing with a vast intangible one that makes such fear formidable. The fears of children invariably depend on this sort of confused association, Dr. Watson's experiments have shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Terrors of Childhood | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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