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After lingering nine days, haggard, platinum-blonde Raven Sherman, heroine of Terry and the Pirates, died of injuries in the Chinese mountains. At Chicago's Loyola University some 200 students faced the east, stood with heads bowed in memoriam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...hand, and the Governor never passes up a chance to salute the heroes of Texas in song & story. On his way to memorial services at the battlefield he stopped at a shacklike house near Houston. There dwelt General Andrew Jackson Houston, 87, only surviving son of Sam Houston, the Raven, the hero of San Jacinto and the greatest Texan of them all. The old man, who paints, writes history, and fusses with people about his father, talked for ten minutes with the Governor. Then O'Daniel loitered for an hour in a filling station near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: New Deal for the Lone Star? | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Diego Rivera is a potbellied, brown-skinned Mexican artist whose murals have gained him fame, controversy, a good living. In his pink & blue studio-houses near Mexico City, he has lately enjoyed the services of a beauteous, raven-tressed Indian model named Nieves (pronounced Nyay'-vezz); the visits of numerous young U. S. women, devotees of art; and notoriety spiced with danger. The danger came from Mexican Stalinists, who, according to ex-Communist Rivera, would like nothing more than to put him out of the way. With the cooperation of Mexican police, they actually did land him in heavy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: South and East | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...conservative, antiwar, but strongly pro-Ally New York Herald Tribune has a raven-haired reporter named Sonia Tomara touring the Near East. Most of last week she spent at Beirut, Syria, after inspecting Turkey and the Balkans. Reporter Tomara last week offered answers to the two key Near East questions. On No. 1 she reported flatly: "The Pan-Arab movement has, for the present at least, given way to a desire to see the Allies win the war. The Arabs understand only too well that the Nazis consider the Semites an inferior race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN THEATRE: How Goes Turkey? | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...jail, including Henri Roser, secretary of the French Fellowship of Reconciliation. Lecturing on peace in the U. S. last week, Muriel Lester, dynamic British pacifist, friend of Mahatma Gandhi, declared: "One can be proud of Britain's civil liberty." Example: the Government recently permitted Canon Charles Earle Raven to broadcast on absolute Christian pacifism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conchies | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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