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Secretary Eden, a model diplomat, said nothing with great graciousness. More forthright, after the meeting, was Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, a stampeding emancipatrix if not yet a diplomat. She snorted: "You can't convince a diplomat. We women made an unanswerable case. A woman is far more skillful than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Women's Rights | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

If every misrepresentation or half-truth on the front page of the typical metropolitan daily were blacked out, how much reading material would be left? Last year members of the Psychology Department, on the track of meat for class-room consumption, constituted themselves into a committee, presumably impartial, to study...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Whole Truth . . ." | 9/24/1941 | See Source »

By the way a baby coos and gurgles, sucks its toes and pats its image in the glass, famed Child Specialist Arnold Gesell of Yale believes he can tell what kind of an adult it will become-whether bright or dull, sociable or seclusive, skillful or clumsy. Last week, Dr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: What's the Baby's D. Q.? | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Colonel Wedgwood's career shows some of the extraordinary vesatility of his distinguished ancestor, and it would be correct, as a result, to refer to him as a naval architect, a gallant army officer, an able historian, a tax expert, or a skillful parliamentarian, but not "merchant" and not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

But Chen Cheng is also a skillful soldier. The measure of his talent is that the Generalissimo chose him to defend the Gorges -which means defending Chungking, which means defending Chiang. Last summer, when Ichang fell, Chen Cheng was blamed by some for the bad strategy which lost that key...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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