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Died. Daniel Willard, 81, last of the old-line, up-from-the-tracks U.S. railroad presidents, savior of the Baltimore & Ohio; in Baltimore. Farm-born Uncle Dan started railroading in 1880 as a tie-tamper, wound up bossing the giant B. & 0. for 32 years. Unlike most railroaders, Dan Willard got along with labor, was regarded as a liberal by his good friend President Roosevelt...
Many Frenchmen, who had stomached the idea of Marshal Pétain as a possible savior of France, vomited all hope for Vichy when Pierre Laval took over...
...Savior. At this moment one fact is more prominent in their minds than any other. That fact is Soviet Russia. Soviet Russia has saved them. If Russia has not saved them from defeat-no Englishman understands defeat, in any case-at the very least Soviet Russia has removed from above their heads and the cribs of their children the awful scourge of fire from the sky. But it is more than that. Russia has not saved them easily-as a big strong uncle might-as Uncle Sam did, perhaps, in the last war. Russia has saved them only...
...human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
...more than 100 photographs of Lincoln, many of them never before published; some 300 photographs of Lincoln's associates, advisers, generals, friends and enemies. One remarkable sequence is a photographic record of Lincoln's transformation from a rather smug frontier lawyer (Picture No. 1) to the brooding savior of the Union (Picture No. 2 taken on a broken plate five days before he was shot). Before Editor Lorant nobody had ever thought to put this sequence together, in part, he believes, because many of the original photographs were so small. Lorant had them enlarged, saw that they were...