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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Elmer | 8/5/1940 | See Source »

When the prisoners were thus ready to be returned to the outside world, the Communist authorities gave each Radziwill two sets of clothing, put them on a special railway car and ran it into the German slice of Poland. There the Radziwills were delivered to the Nazis and interned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Polish Pétain? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...long, camouflage-dappled touring car Benito Mussolini last week ventured, four days after fighting ceased, into the thin slice of Alpine territory which the French, retreating before the Germans, yielded to his soldiers. It was his first visit to French soil since becoming a dictator 18 years ago. More daring last week -and less lucky-was bronze-bearded Air Marshal Italo Balbo, one of Mussolini's original Quadrumvirate in 1922, "exiled" since 1933 (when he won great publicity for a mass seaplane flight from Rome to Chicago) as Governor and Military Commander of Libya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Death for Balbo | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

When Captain Groves, bronzed in the service of the No. 1 U. S. Mediterranean ship operator, leaves the Rock, a fat slice of international trade will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Civilization's Cradle Snatched | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line for a bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries are now in Nazi hands. One Western Hemisphere producer knew for sure that it had lost a market when Italy entered the war. Soon after Mussolini had made his radio speech, Jesus Silva Herzog, No. 1 oil salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Civilization's Cradle Snatched | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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