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...Scott is an author second and a newspaperman first. The last three years he was in Russia he worked for the New York Times, the sober London News Chronicle, the French news agency Havas-worked for them almost too zealously, it seems, because just two weeks before the German invasion he was kicked out of the Soviet Union for telling too much a little too soon. (He tipped the news that all was not well between Hitler and Stalin in a series of articles smuggled across the border by "rabbits"-traveling diplomats who mailed the stories to his newspaper from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...usual there is one carefree pilot who has to combat the dislike of his companions, sober up after causing the death of a conscientious man, and finally redeem himself by a glorious death while on a dangerous volunteer mission. This time the flyer is John Carroll, who does a better-than-average job with the part, but it doesn't make much difference because the idea is so hackneyed by now. On hand also to fill a necessary part of the old triangle is nurse and war worker Anna Lee. Her heart belongs to the handsome squadron commander, John Wayne...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/24/1942 | See Source »

...down the land came hours of great but sober rejoicing. The news crowded everything else out of the papers; poured forth from the radio; in all the land there was hardly another topic of conversation. The nation's urge for action and attack was fulfilled; to many an American it seemed that this moment marked the turning point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Big Push | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Soviet Russia celebrated its 25th anniversary as it did its first-with enemy armies deeply entrenched in Russian soil. But in a sober speech honoring the anniversary last week, grim-faced Joseph Stalin voiced his faith in victory. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Confidence in Moscow | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Here the stocky, sober Republican from South Dakota paused and looked around the Senate. His colleagues were listening indifferently. Their arguments were fixed, their minds made up: they were going to pass (58-10-5) the bill lowering the draft age to 18-but they were also going to pass (39-to-31) Democrat W. Lee O'Daniel's amendment that 18- and 19-year-olds must have a year's training before going to battlefronts abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Out | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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