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These deeds and the others unreported, shone like bright stars against the black shadow of ultimate defeat that still hung over MacArthur's gallant army. Had it not been for the debacle at Pearl Harbor he might by now have been relieved. Now it was a last-ditch fight...
...light's fuel had blown up. They put out in a lifeboat. In the kitchen of Tuskar Light they found Patrick Scanlon, dying of injuries. They found William Cahill under a pile of debris, unhurt. Above, beside the light, they found Peter Roddy, unconscious. Tuskar Light still shone the way into Rosslare for the skippers of dumpy mail boats...
...pearl of all educational programs shone again last Sunday. After seven weeks off the air, CBS's Invitation to Learning (TIME, Oct. 21, 1940) returned at a new time, 11:30 a.m. to 12 E.S.T., with discussion of the second most popular books in the world (Don Quixote). The talkers Mark Van Doren, John Peale Bishop and Jacques Barzan, examined the mad knight of Cervantes as an archetype of all high-minded but ill-informed reformers, found a recent treatment of the same subject in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. They agreed, however, that Cervantes...
...bluish portrait of a massive, flabby, seminude, varicose-veined prostitute primping herself before a tumbledown Victorian table with a crumpled dol lar bill on it, caused a storm of protest several years ago when it was exhibited. But art connoisseurs had to admit that its lugubrious, shadowy surfaces, which shone like crushed tinfoil, were unparalleled in modern painting...
...corporation profits in 1941's third quarter were hay made while the sun shone. Combined profits of 200 big concerns (compiled by National City Bank) were $374,000,000, highest since 1929 and 48% above the September quarter of 1940. Nine-month profits were...