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The swamp people had picked a favorite: muscular, moon-faced Herb Creppel, 24, who won the last big race just before he went off to be a paratrooper, three years ago. Now he was defending his championship with a shrapnel wound in his right leg. It didn't seem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: King of the Bayou | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

Arch of Triumph is chiefly the love story of this sadly cynical surgeon and a bit of international flotsam named Joan Madou. It is also a story of the vicissitudes of the emigres and Ravic's murder of the Gestapo chief who had tortured him in Germany. The story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parabola of Despair | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

But most Nürnbergers were simply concerned with finding food and shelter and warmth in the soggy, smelly ruins of their city. Enviously they looked at the Grand Hotel (requisitioned for the trial staff) which was well heated, served plenty of food on fabulously clean linen, and had a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Fallen Eagles | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Congress displayed a soggy lack of enthusiasm; the public was remarkably silent. So it seemed possible that the debate over peacetime conscription, touched off by President Truman's message to Congress (TIME, Oct. 29), might sputter out like a damp fuse in the fogs of the first postwar autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Conscription's Chances | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

And Then There Were None (20th Century-Fox), a whodunit that concentrates on atmosphere, is more sultry than chilling. Its ten shady-looking characters are herded off to a soggy, cheerless house-party on a windswept little island. The reason for this melancholy get-together is soon apparent: each of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 15, 1945 | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

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