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History as truth interested Dumas, but did not constrain him. "It is permissible to violate history," he said, "on condition that you have a child by her." When people asked him how he produced such a never-ending succession of novels, plays, stories, Dumas said: "Ask a plum tree how it produces plums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dumas Returns | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...carload of The-Men-Who-Made-America, The Great American Customer deals only inferentially with the subject of its title, concentrates on the all-but-forgotten manufacturers and salesmen who supplied the U.S. customer's meager demands in the early days after Independence. But it is a plum cake rich in things most U.S. citizens never knew before about their forebears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Yankees at Work | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...opened like doors to see his high-up tawny pants and his pants he smoothed downward from the points of his collar, and he wore a luminous baby-pink satin shirt. At the end, he reached gently above his wide platter-shaped round hat, the color of a plum, and one finger touched at the feather, emerald green, blowing in the spring winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sense and Sensibility | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...rich, postwar plum of passengers and freight traffic across the North Atlantic to Europe, American Airlines, biggest U.S. domestic line, last week reached out a powerful hand. American filed its application with CAB for two North Atlantic routes: 1) from New York and Boston to London, 2) from Chicago and Detroit to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Atlantic Challenge | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Confusion. The Wehrmacht had used the interim since Benito Mussolini's passing to entrench itself in strategic Northern Italy. If the Allies had been ready to invade at that time, Italy might well have fallen like a ripe plum. Now they would face at least organized German resistance. Now Italy may not only be fought over by the Allies and Germans, but perhaps be torn first by civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Two Wars | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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