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Once, between wars, he was forced down in the African desert and rescued by a British R.A.F. captain. Once he landed his plane on an iceberg in Greenland and was lost for four days alone on the ice. On his two trips to the U.S., for the National Air Races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Nine Are Not Enough | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

I enclose a photograph of the central mural, one of five, which adorns the walls of Shreveport's newest skyscraper. This particular panel depicts Captain Henry Shreve, breaking up the great raft on Red River at a point where the city of Shreveport now stands. This, I believe, gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Against the Storm is written by Sandra Michael for Procter & Gamble, goes out over NBC's Red network from 3 to 3:15 p.m. E.S.T. Mondays through Fridays. Unpublicized for two years, it began to get astonished reviews last month. Fortnight ago Variety, which is not girlish, called one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Against the Claptrap | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

As agent for Greyhound, Rubloff bought the famous old Ashland Block, a 16-story terra cotta skyscraper that sunburned the tonsils of visitors to the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. He also bought seven adjoining properties, making 70,000 square feet in all. Total cost: $1,700,000. Best guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art Rubloff Rides Again | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Chief publicist of the campaign is Chicago's bouncing Health Commissioner, Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen. He has made frequent headlines by running "diet derbies," endorsing sauerkraut juice for health, giving his blood to sick babies, opposing the construction of a skyscraper because it would shut off sunlight from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bundesen's Blitz | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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