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...immediately surrounded by a blaze of 20th-century horror. Incendiaries fired his straw-and-wattle lambing pens, sheltering 34 ewes and lambs. High explosives followed the incendiaries and scared the wits out of the sheep dog, who promptly went A.W.O.L. for 24 hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near a terrified ewe, who tried to shield her lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed through the smoke, followed by the baaing mamma, left them in an open field which was eerily lighted by fires and constant explosions. Six times he returned to the blazing pens, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Heroic Shepherd | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...announced to go on April 18, on the 166th anniversary of U.S. history's most famous ride. But it was not till the following week that piccolos squealed Yankee Doodle over the Berlin short-wave and a sound-effects man clopped coconut shells in simulation of furious galloping. Then, under the name of Paul Revere, "an unknown American of Pilgrim ancestry" took to the air and began in English to gabble for Goebbels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo, Chandler! | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...called until new camps are built. The army has recently hinted at doubling the size of the draft army and contracts for the new camps are being awarded now. Possibly two out of three July I-A men will be in uniform but they will probably not be called till January. At that time most cases will be able to get deferment till midyear exams are finished...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First of July | 6/6/1941 | See Source »

...really sonorous send-off ASCAP had to wait till Sunday night. Then, on an hour-and-a-half, coast-to-coast program called "ASCAP Salutes Mutual," the composers broadcast a solemn Te Deum celebrating their first settlement with the chains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Back to Tin Pan Alley | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...making old Rubashov confess ("To have laid out a Rubashov meant the beginning of a great career") were GPU Inquisitors Ivanov and Gletkin. Ivanov had been Rubashov's former schoolmate, former battalion commander. He drank, he doped a little, "but the vice of pity I have up till now managed to avoid. The smallest dose of it, and you are lost. . . . The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brightest in Dungeons | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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