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Most hilarious chapter is about Hollywood, where at one revolutionary banquet, the high-priced cinemarxists raised their champagne glasses in a toast before bursting into "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation!" Most important chapter is the one on red-baiting. Lyons points out that the epithet "red-baiter," uttered in shrill tones of ethical exaltation, has a paralyzing effect on almost all liberal critics of Communism, is one of the most effective silencing tricks in the versatile Communist repertory. The Lyons recipe for overcoming it: "Walk up boldly to the terrible hobgoblin and . . . say, 'Boo!'' He warns liberals...
...After seven months' warning, and over the shrill protest of Japanese Ambassador Itaso Ishii, Brazil suppressed all foreign-language newspapers. Thirteen were German, two Italian, three Japanese, one Spanish, six English, eight Arabic, two Jewish, one Polish, one Hungarian...
...calm that followed Franklin Roosevelt's radio speech, stating the general intentions of the U.S. in World War II (TIME, June 9), voices could again be heard last week engaged in War & Peace debate. Now those voices had begun to sound shrill, small and ominous, like the chittering of sparrows in the moment of hush after the first great gust announcing an approaching storm...
Early last month Cincinnati music-lovers were told that for the first time in 20 summers there would be no opera in the lion-loud, peacock-shrill Cincinnati Zoo. Reason: insufficient funds. A bunch of Cincinnati youngsters went to work, this week announced that they had raised $7,000, more than enough to insure zooperations next month...
Died. Stocky, boyish-looking Commander Günther Prien, 33, Germany's No. 1 naval hero; spurlos versenkt in the Battle of the Atlantic. A shrill-voiced banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...