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With a fine crop of Washington socialites sitting under her domineering auctioneering spell, fat, party-witted Elsa Maxwell raised $10 for the R.A.F. by knocking down an alleged tuft of George III's beard.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Minnesota's Commissioner of Education, John Gunderson Rockwell, is a tall, razory man, sharp-nosed, sharp-witted, sharp-tempered. U. S. educators know him as a ball of fire. In his six years as Commissioner, he has pioneered many an educational experiment, made many an enemy, battled many a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Battle of St. Paul | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

In its sphere, the novel is a masterpiece. It is as mature and finished as Henry James's The Turn of the Screw, though still more specialized. Its story is about life as Carson McCullers sees fit to create it in a Southern Army camp, and is almost desperately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Masterpiece at 24 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

One day last week servants entered his private chamber, found his bed empty and no sign of their master anywhere. Worried relatives suspected kidnapping, or suicide touched off by an unbalanced mind. But the wary Government issued a special warrant for his rearrest, anxiously awaited new signs of civil disobedience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Exit Mr. Bose | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

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