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When Sam came to the U.S. from his native Poland at the age of nine, he lived up to his triumphant European press clippings by playing 20 U.S. Army officers simultaneously (a contest that gives each opponent 20 times as much time to contemplate each move) without losing a game...
...today, the way through to the triumphant end now seems to be outlined. Yet no one believes it to be an easy road; and the question is--how long--how many years before the end? The kind of world in which you and your generation will spend your days depends in no small measure on the answer to this question. Every day the war continues prolongs, the agony of civilization; every month adds to the chaos with which the post-war world must deal; every year increases the hazards which liberty must encounter when the war is won. Therefore...
...tasks thrust on the 77th Congress; in no other country were the overwhelming chores of global war thrown on such a heterogeneous group of men & women. Some future Reveille in Washington will record the solemn manner in which Franklin Roosevelt asked for a declaration of war, the triumphant grin on Poll-Taxer Theodore Bilbo's face, the specter of Prohibition unearthed by Josh Lee, the invective poured out by Montana's Burton Wheeler, the ringing periods of Visitor Winston Churchill's oration in the House Chamber, the turbulent, sweaty, exhausting, endless...
...Interior Department, with its authority over mining and public power. If Franklin Roosevelt appoints a power administrator some day, as seems likely, Harold Ickes is the logical man. And he still sits on the same operating base from which he has waged some of his hottest and most triumphant battles: to expand steel and aluminum production, to build a pipeline to the East Coast, to purge Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones (an old enemy) from the war program...
...TIME and LIFE News Bureau now on the Dark Continent moved in from Asia, from Britain and from across the Atlantic-to reinforce John Barkham, who covers the news for us down in South Africa-and Harry Zinder, just back in our Cairo office after jeeping along with the triumphant Eighth Army all the way from Alamein to Derna...