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...that we may learn from your visits a bit about what you like (or don't like) about TIME-and what subscribers in your city are thinking these days about politics and labor and farming, about war plans and postwar plans, about shoes and ships and sealing wax and women's clothes...
...concessions in Northern Iran. So far the new Government of Premier Morteza Gholi Bayat, whose first name means "Pleasing to God," has not been asked for a concession. But last week, with his consent, the Iranian Parliament lashed Gholi Bayat to the mast and stopped his ears with wax. It passed a bill making it a crime to negotiate oil concessions with a foreign government or company. Penalty for disobeying: three to eight years in jail...
...Blaschka models goes back to 1886 and the founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done in glass...
...larger, undisclosed purpose. Was Cardinal Villeneuve carrying a message to Pius XII from Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill? Cried the Vatican: "Fantastic!" But observers noted that when Cardinal Villeneuve went in for his hour's talk with the Pope, he carried a bulky envelope sealed with five wax seals. He came out without...
...dead German lay in a ditch. In his worn, dirty infantry-private's uniform, he looked like a fallen bronze statue covered with a heavy greyish-green patina-except for the wax-yellow face, the blond hair and the staring blue eyes. He was young, not much over...