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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over one of Germany's powerful Zeesen transmitters last week plain Jane Anderson (TIME, Jan. 19) was going great guns. The middleaged, neurotic, American-born Axis tub thumper ("Lady Haw-Haw" to the British) was setting the U.S. short-wave audience straight on the Nazi food supply with a luscious description of a visit to a Berlin cocktail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Sweets & Cookies | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...week was a thumping, banging hullabaloo that set their feet atwitch, their elbows aquiver. Crouching like a witch doctor over a clattery battery of traps, perspiring, floppy-haired Gene Krupa beat out African war dances and eight-to-the-bar boogie-woogie bumps. Between beats Mr. Krupa, a scholarly thumper as well as one of the world's best drummers, explained which was which. The Museum had asked him to drum up its educational program. And he banged out a reply to Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who lately pronounced Manhattan museums "stuffy" and unattractive to the young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Drummer in a Museum | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Like Hearst, Rothermere collected objects of art and stored them away. Like Hearst he was a patriotic tub-thumper, a violent Red-baiter. He lived like a maharaja, traveled with an entourage of editors, friends, servants, women. He was lavish with money, but was never the resourceful editor Northcliffe had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Viscount | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

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