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Unlike Nephew Leo, Uncle Philibert laughed at police traps, led the cops Mack Sennett chases. Sometimes he found temporary refuge in a tree, sometimes in Belgium, sometimes in the constitutional immunity of the Chamber of Deputies. But he died (1941) in Riom prison.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Piker's Nephew | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

Like Pieter de Hooch. The spirit which a Princess of Orange called for in her people has already done wonders in their land. Six years have passed since the white parachutes and bombs first fell from a mild May sky. One year has passed since the invaders were routed, leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Woman in the House | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Businessmen who remember how Lawyer Mason won a case before FTC by quoting his own doggerel-were delighted at the sympathetic note from the other side of the fence. If the new commissioner has his way, FTC will be, in his own words, more like a policeman directing traffic than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Plain Talk at Last | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

Eskimos call at the post about once a fortnight, bringing Arctic foxes. While the huskies eat, the post manager settles accounts for the furs brought in, offers advice on supplies for the next trip. The clerk sells essentials: 30-30 rifles and ammunition, all-steel traps, motorboats costing up to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Call of the North | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

District Attorney Brown has plenty of ammunition for a showdown between law and organized abortion. A grand jury has indicted a doctor charged with the Christmas-Day murder of a mother of two. Brown has gathered as witnesses former customers whose names San Francisco newspapers have promised to withhold. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion in San Francisco | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

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