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...attempt to stem the rising tide of revolt, Adolf Hitler ordered a Balkan conference. Hitler, Mussolini, Admiral Horthy of Hungary, King Boris of Bulgaria and Premier General Ion Antonescu of Rumania were to meet in Vienna to try to straighten out the New Order in Southern Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Hour in the Balkans | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...audience applauded his gruesome demise. But the all-important part in the play is that of Jessica's brother, Damon, director and leading man in her new show. Philip Huston appears in this role of a puckish young man taking time off from his women and his beer to straighten out his sister's life. It is the best performance of the evening and will bring great pleasure to every observer. The nine other members of the east complete a very rosy picture, particularly Naacy Duncan as an inquisitive maid, and Mary Barthelmess as a "part-time" actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/15/1942 | See Source »

...Kharkov action was local in its immediate purpose and effect; it was not. the major Nazi offensive which the world still awaited. Berlin stated the simple fact when a communiqué called the Kharkov advance an action to "straighten the lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Another Year | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

North of Moscow, on the Kalinin front, the Nazis and Russians pinched at each other, trying to straighten the innumerable kinks and interlacing niches in each other's lines which resulted from local winter skirmishes and infiltrations. Before either side can launch a major drive, it must try to eliminate the other's outlying positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Another Year | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Prue Hathaway (Joan Fontaine), upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 1, 1942 | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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