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Another smart move of General Hodges -pushing two columns forward to threaten Liège and then cutting the city off from behind by a third column-cut up another German division, captured a thousand prisoners, killed one general and captured another without a real fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: West: A Smart War | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...last October Bose had worked his way to Singapore via Tokyo. He proclaimed a "Provisional Government of India," set about recruiting an "army of liberation," was tireless in his praise for Jap assistance in the task. When the time came to threaten Allied communications with southeast Asia, the Japs dubbed Bose a general and took him along with his "army of liberation." Through the heavy folds of British censorship in New Delhi came word that Bose's forces numbered some 3,000 men; others, freer to speak the truth, guess that he may have as many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Renegade's Revenge | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the Monarchy. The institution is the thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Man of England | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...Park Avenue rival of psychoanalysis. For fees from $1,000 up, he has greatly helped a golf professional who was off his game, brooding artists, jittery businessmen, neurotic housewives, drunks, insomniacs, kleptomaniacs - usually in not more than six sessions. Some enthusiasts think that Salter's methods actually threaten psychoanalysts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Svengali Revisited | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Yale and Harvard talked last week about their plans for postwar education. On one point they were agreed: government financial aid must not threaten academic control. Then they parted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Yale v. Harvard | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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