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...Northwestern. Last week the Northwestern's editorial board, mostly pacifist and isolationist last year, met to bring its policy up to date. The vote: for isolation -1; for intervention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Switch | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Chief hope of the Fahnestocks: that their records will show that at one time there were migrations from Northwestern India down to New Zealand, thence to Hawaii. Preliminary study of the music shows overlapping themes in island groups several thousand miles apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

Last week U.S. psychologists powwowed at Northwestern University, reported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: People, Goldfish | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...bleak, remote northwestern China a button-eyed boy named Tuteng Tueh-chi was solemnly examined by Chinese officials from Chungking. They investigated tales of signs and portents which had supposedly attended his birth three years ago. Finally they were satisfied that he was indeed the reincarnation of a round-bellied little man who had died shortly before the youngster was born. And last week they told the world that the little boy is the Panchen or Tashi Lama, Buddha of Boundless Light and spiritual ruler of 10,000,000 rancid Tibetans and Mongolians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Panchen Lama Discovered | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...reported that a French North African column had marched south across the Sahara to N'Guigmi on the northwestern shores of great, marshy Lake Chad, base of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French forces. And to the West African port of Dakar convoys kept bringing artillery, armored cars and tanks apparently returned to Vichy by the Nazis. This week General Maxime Weygand flew to Vichy, rushed to confer with Marshal Pétain. A Vichy-De Gaullist clash for France's African Empire-even war between France and Great Britain-seemed near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Darlan v. Britain | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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