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Whether or not this situation was the cause, or whether it was some undisclosed tragedy, we will never know, but "To Her" has been succeeded by a torrent of verse on every conceivable subject and a few inconceivable ones. To illustrate, the following is an excerpt from a "Bolba Special" intitled REPOSE...
...answer goes right to the heart of the Newsmagazine Idea-for the basic promise we have made you and every other TIME subscriber is not that we will get you the news first, but rather that we will sift through the torrent of news that sweeps past you every day-leave out everything you can afford to skip-and then tell you all the really significant news of the week just as briefly, clearly, memorably and understandingly as we know...
...First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
...torrent of Lend-Lease has apparently passed its peak. Month by month since August the flow of weapons, food and clothing to 33 Lend-Lease nations has steadily declined. Alternately, the stream of reverse Lend-Lease (TIME, Nov. 22) has just as steadily swelled, has already topped...
...troops and his opponents'. The difference was that Napoleon's achievements in both politics and warfare were hailed by most commentators, beginning with himself, while Wellington, who refused to have books written about his battles, was discredited. The incessant stream of Napoleonic propaganda that flowed in a torrent from the 19th into the 20th Century undermined Wellington's military reputation: "There is something disquieting," says Author Aldington, "about the almost fanatical boosting of the arch dictator throughout the period which was at least pretending to apply the principles of democracy...