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...discounted True Comics' chances on two main counts: They doubted 1) whether it could arouse sufficient newsstand appeal to make money (since subscription sales of comic books account for only about1% of the total), and 2) whether thrill-sophisticated comicbook readers could be convinced that "Truth is stranger and a thousand times more interesting than fiction!" But at least, True Comics had given parents a weapon with which to fight the racketeers of childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Racketeers of Childhood | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...game of basketball. He was shot three times from behind, left dead in the gutter. The killer made his getaway. An hour and a half later, a few blocks away, young Joseph Moran was checking the unloading of a ten-ton truck. A stranger stepped in out of the rain. "Who's Joe Moran around here?" he asked. "That's me," said Moran cheerfully. The stranger shot three times, killed Moran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Speaking of Crime | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...testimony of Harvard's president on the Lease-Lend bill Tuesday displayed a strange brand of logic combined with an even stranger evaluation of the temper of the American people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

...they went they recruited an army even stranger than the land-a corps of Tuaregs, tall muscular men of reddish-yellow skin, long and silky black hair, small noses, delicate hands, Berbers whose women go barefaced but who themselves wear dark blue veils. They ride the extraordinary Mehari camel, which can travel 125 miles a day. They arm themselves with a straight, double-edged sword almost four feet long, daggers bound to their left forearms, and spears and leather shields...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Raid in the Desert | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...cast by Delegate Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, die-hard isolationist, the New Deal's bitterest journalistic enemy. Last week the bitter hate-filled Chicago Tribune read the Republican candidate out of the Republican Party: "Mr. Willkie entered the Republican Party as a mysterious stranger, suddenly and to the astonishment of thousands of the party members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Critical Collaboration | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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