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Berlin had its own explanation of the pockets where German fighting men had been encircled: they were advanced cen ters of resistance which would soon be come alive.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Spring is Coming | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Operating now on both edges of the continent, blue-eyed, greying Jimmy Wa ters commutes back & forth by airplane two or three times a month, has apart ments on Manhattan's swank Park Avenue and San Francisco's swank Nob Hill as well as an estate at Woodside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Taxi Salesman | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

Important communications held up all right (the equivalent of about three ships' worth of food was destroyed, while 200 with food and munitions arrived), but civilian communications were badly disrupted. Commuters were badly delayed by subways which had been damaged or which lay near unexploded time bombs. Post offices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Death and the Hazards | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

>To help sweep the dust out of the Foreign Ministry, Paul Reynaud chose a brand-new broom: Paul Baudouin, 45, second from left on TIME'S cover. After a brilliant flying career in World War I, Baudouin picked up some political point ers as private secretary to Finance Minis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

The Rev. Lewis Thomas Wattson he was called 46 years ago, when he was a minister of the Episcopal Church. Within the framework of that church he founded, 40 years ago, his order which followed the Franciscan rule and dress, and aimed to send out missionaries to the heathen. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Graymoor | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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