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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Providence, Mrs. Filomena Fazatta, nearing 108, looked forward to getting her final citizenship papers in 1944, observed: "I am healthy. I can wait." In Manhattan, Mrs. Peter Christman turned 100, declared: "There are too many people in the world." In Norristown, Pa., Ellwood Paul, 101, complained about living so long, jumped to his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Pittsburgh, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 26, 1942 | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...unparalleled masterpiece of understatement. Such absurd generalities as "Japanese are nervous in conversation, laugh loudly at the wrong time," or "most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles" would have certainly made the eminent Dr. Samuel Johnson apoplectic. ... I feel the appropriateness of an admonishing Tsk ! Tsk ! MARTIN J. KATZ Philadelphia, Pa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...minutes before 11 a.m. the sputter of motorcycles outside drowned the soft music within the little church. First through the door came Mr. Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide, Major General Edwin ("Pa") Watson, his big hand gripping an ivory-headed walking stick. Then came Mrs. Roosevelt and the President's naval aide, Captain John R. Beardall; Miss Malvina Thompson, Mrs. Roosevelt's secretary; Lord and Lady Halifax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conferences, In Church & Out | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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