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...Franklin Roosevelt told the people how he felt, We almost believed him when he said: "Oh, I hate war, And so does Eleanor, But we won't be safe till everybody's dead." That was a popular Communist song, until last week. Then, at a secret meeting in Manhattan, the national committee of the party announced the new party line: dropping the anti-war campaign, favoring aid to Britain, lend-lease help to Russia, higher wages, the right to strike, organization of the unorganized-in short, a return to the Popular Front that the Communists junked when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: The New Party Line | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...soon as the victim of brain tumor breathed his last, they cut him open, slit out one of his healthy adrenal glands. Then they gave the dying woman a local anesthetic, grafted the gland in her wasted abdominal muscles, nursed her along with synthetic hormones till the graft took. Within a week the gland was functioning and the woman was well enough to leave the hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Glands From the Dead | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...make that clique fight for its political life. At the eighth annual convention of the American News paper Guild in Detroit's Book-Cadillac Hotel, the Milton Kaufman-Nat Einhorn-Victor Pasche group, baited as Reds, saved its neck by a few votes, but got only a reprieve till...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Newspapermen's Fight | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Rocky Mountain spotted fever to recover from an attack. The other: the man who invented the serum-young Dr. Norman Hawkins Topping of the U.S. Public Health Service. His attack of fever three years ago was so '"terrible" that after his miraculous recovery he worked day & night till he produced the new serum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Rocky Mountain Fever | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

...Farkas asked a California court to set aside the divorce she got from Director Alexander Korda twelve years ago. Korda married Merle Oberon nine years later, is still married to her. His ex-wife stated she really didn't want the divorce, went right on living with Korda till just before he wed Miss Oberon. Victor Mature, 26, Gertrude Lawrence's dream-Adonis in Lady in the Dark, married Martha Stephenson Kemp, 22-year-old widow of Band Leader Hal Kemp, who was killed in an auto crash last December. Hillbilly Canary Judy Canova, 24, married Corporal James...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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