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> Minister of Government Miguel Aleman looks upon Maximino and Padilla as possible rivals for the Presidency in 1946. Smooth, quick-witted Miguel Aleman cleaned up the Axis spy ring in Mexico, ran the propaganda campaigns which helped swing public opinion behind Mexico's entrance into the war. He controls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Back to the Earth | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Sir Thomas got his knighthood following his services to the Empire when, as an unofficial good-will ambassador to Italy during World War I, he helped keep wavering Italian politicians firmly on the side of the Allies. He still likes to call himself one of Britain's leading promoters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enthusiastic Amateur | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Little brother Ulysses, meanwhile, has made himself, in his four-year-old wanderings, the most delicately engaging character in the book. Saroyan seldom manages to embody emotions, but his lyric talent can brilliantly suggest even very subtle ones: Ulysses waving to a singing Negro on a passing freight; or handing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pure in Heart | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

The plot is wholesomely simple with Ann buying a collection of antiques including a ramshackle house where George Washington was said to have spent a night. Relations with a crotchety neighbor, a fraud of a rich uncle, are the stronger parts of the picture; and a slow-witted caretaker steals...

Author: By J. M., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 1/13/1943 | See Source »

Still another New Englander named Wooley (Fredric March), a candidate for Governor, is about to marry still another shrew (Susan Hayward). The witch promptly embodies herself as Miss Lake, nude in the obscuring smoke of a hotel fire, and sets about hexing Wooley into hopeless love with her. Though she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 9, 1942 | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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