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...When he proclaimed the Second Coming at the World's Fair, he was unsympathetically bundled off to the city hospital for observation, a "purification" he cheerfully endured. Transferred to a state hospital, he was cruelly beaten for a supposed misdemeanor. "After that beating," said Mike, "I was more sane than insane." In a few weeks, without further treatment, he was released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape from Life | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...young counsel to the U.S. peace delegation, John Foster Dulles saw the failure of Versailles at first hand. As chairman of the Federal Council of Churches' Commission on a Just and Durable Peace, he campaigned hard for sane internationalism. And as foreign affairs advisor to Thomas E. Dewey he approved Dumbarton Oaks. But last week Foster Dulles, at a Presbyterian conference in Brooklyn, sounded a sharp warning. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Warning | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...roommate caused the stir of the evening when he showed up with five (not two or three like any sane polygamist--but five) young ladies. He danced with each one in her rightful turn. We later interviewed the young ladies and asked what's the story...

Author: By W.m. Cousins and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/15/1944 | See Source »

Vermont's sane, usually unexcitable Warren R. Austin declared: "It would then be just another step until the nation reached a state of national socialism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Battle of Reconversion | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...safe and, for a Jap, a sane, solid way to build a reputation. The only trouble was that, no matter how safely an officer tried to set his course, there were obstacles-like calculating Spruance and wizened, air-wise Marc Mitscher. And they were not passive obstacles: they were closing around him like a tightening clamp. They were closing inexorably on the Empire where Shimada had worked so hard and dully to be a great naval captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Ruin in Two Phases | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

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