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Aside from his calamitous reduction of Paraguay's man power. Dictator Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historic Slaughter | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

While bombs and shell fire were making rubble out of Luis Quintanilla's murals and his studio near University City, he fought with the Leftist infantry in the Guadarrama Mountains, at Toledo and in Madrid. In the fourth month of the war the Government carefully sent him out of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Profile of War | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

Sharp-witted Amster Spiro, city editor of William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal-American, knows little about playing parlor games, including bridge, but he does know a good thing when he sees it. Over a year ago, when he read that "Monopoly" was selling by millions, his newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Spiro Games | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

In your Feb. 21 issue you refer to Georgi Dimitroff's methods in his Reichstag-fire trial as "indomitable, singlehanded, fighting methods" which caused the German Supreme Court to acquit "the famed Bulgarian Communist." In fact-gathering FORTUNE'S article on British Foreign Policy last March he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

Reader Moore should pay attention. The "half-witted stooge" of the Reichstag trial was Marinus van der Lubbe, who shortly after the trial ended was beheaded.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 14, 1938 | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

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