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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Years ago, when we were both students at Cornell, the present Chinese Ambassador gave me a simple and unfailing rule for telling our loyal friends from Japanese: Chinese have monosyllabic, Japanese polysyllabic names. This test is far easier than calipers. . . . J. V. DEPORTE New Lebanon Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...This is a time when the courage of all the people of these islands, whatever their nationality, is being put to the test. We are being afforded a rare opportunity to show the stuff of which we are made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Hail But Not Farewell | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...veteran nerve campaigner of Berchtesgaden was not idle. Angered by his reverses in Russia and Libya, undoubtedly bent on some recuperative blow, he appeared to be covering his retreats with a barrage of rumors calculated to test the reactions of possible opponents or "collaborators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Again, the Nerves | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...that she had served cocktails to her high-school students (TIME, July 19, 1937), her neighbors in Saugus, Mass. signed petitions; students picketed her detractors' homes. She saw her picture splashed over the nation's front pages. Columnists glorified her. Out of the notoriety came a screen test-a chance to escape the humdrum life of a schoolmarm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Path of Glory | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

That was in 1937. She flunked the screen test. A radio job in Boston petered out. She sang a few times in nightclubs. Then she was forgotten. But there was no going back to Saugus. She wound up in Manhattan, writing advertising copy for lingerie and haberdashery, living in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment, struggling to make ends meet, like thousands of other obscure working girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Path of Glory | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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