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...enter into some relations whereby we [in Africa] may avail ourselves of your music." Handy's book, like his music, is most significant as the life story of a talented Negro in the U.S. Handy makes neither much nor little of the racial question, but he does refer to it, on occasion. And now & again he speaks directly, for Jews as well as Negroes, with a lack of bitterness, a fearlessness and a dignity which lights up both the sins and the hopes of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Obstetrician of the Blues | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...reveals the details of the Raja's courtship of me and our marital relations. I did not write the book. It was authored by the wife of the Tuan Muda (Captain Bertram Brooke), my brother-in-law, and it does not contain any details of the type you refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...launch torpedoes the Fleet Air Arm used antique wire-stayed biplanes, which carrier pilots refer to as "string bags." These planes had to approach to within 500 yards of their targets at about 20 feet above the water. They were presumably covered by a plane-hung smoke screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Lessons from the Bismarck | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...simple expedient of ignoring them or preventing their spread and publication. Like any other intellectual arguments, they must be met and refused purely on the basis of their own content and merit. The CRIMSON feels that in printing the two advertisements to which Messrs. Rand, Dur, and Field refer, it contributed to its readers' knowledge of the logic of American Fascism, and, thereby, to their ability to meet that logic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Note | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

...becoming increasingly vexed at some of the letters that you publish every week which refer to World War II and the United States' part in it. For they would imply that the United States, by stopping some of its worldwide commerce, protecting its own boundaries, and, becoming, in a word, isolationist, can preserve Democracy. Bunk! Who wants "preserved" Democracy? The United States cannot become a museum for Democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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