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...Admiral Darlan, according to reports, who surrendered Algiers. He was a U.S. prisoner and rumor held that he might be persuaded to another ratlike twist of his career: a shift to the anti-Vichy side. As for Vichy's unsavory Chief of Government Pierre Laval, this wiliest of the men of Vichy was said to have hastened to Rome for a worried meeting with Hitler and Mussolini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Enemy Gasps and Wavers | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...probable that the Germans would throw their whole strength into the Crimea, although it is only 22 miles across the Kerch Straits from the oil-soaked Caucasus. To risk everything in a game of leapfrog from Crimea to the Caucasus would mean leaving their left flank open to the wiliest of the Russian generals, Marshal Semion Timoshenko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Thing or Ante-Thing | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Italy last week acquired the services of one of the wiliest anti-British leaders of the Moslem world. Haj Amin El-Husseini, exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, specializes in spectacular escapes from the wrath of the British Empire, whose peace he has been disturbing for the past 21 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mufti Muffed | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

From the lowly flounder to the lordly broadbill swordfish, Angler Heilner loves them all. To each he devotes a chapter- weakfish, bluefish, striped and channel bass, sailfish, marlin, tuna, tarpon, and a definitive essay on the bonefish, wiliest of all-setting at the end of each chapter an extremely useful condensed guide for the handling of each species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Ocean Cicerone | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...since Michigan's famed Benny Friedman has the Western Conference had a forward passer like Michigan's Harry Newman. Last week, Harry Newman executed his wiliest play of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 28, 1932 | 11/28/1932 | See Source »

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