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Since there are only 9,000 Koreans in the U.S. and Hawaii, last week's ruling did not directly affect many people. But it told the world-and especially the Far East-that anybody who so unnerved the Japanese could not be counted an enemy alien...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Japanese Obsession | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

Brightly framed by his own portrait on the stage, Bridges shouted: "We know who is the greatest threat to this world-and it's not the Reds. Our big job is to destroy the Fascist forces in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Hard A-Starboard | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Lacking the courage to stay away, he goes to all his openings (arriving with the ushers) and suffers through them. He hates first-night audiences-the swishiest and toughest gang in the world-and usually hangs backstage, "so I don't have to look at all those bastards out front." He is in a constant dither that his show will flop. After one opening that had the audience rolling in the aisles, the leading man found Kaufman crushed against a wall "looking a little like the late Marie Antoinette in the tumbril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Past Master | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author Alan Villiers used to sail all over the world-and the Coast Guard patrol boat Faunce. Later, the freighter Edgemoor, now being reconditioned, will be added to the school equipment. Training courses as planned will require three months, during which the enrolled seamen will be paid $36 a month. First month will stress the rudiments of sailing ("even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Seamen's Seminar | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...John Tinney McCutcheon showing Edward VIII as Prince Charming kneeling to Mrs. Simpson as Cinderella and finding that her foot fits his jeweled slipper. In the background John Bull shushes a man representing British Journalism who tears his hair and cries: "Ye gods! The biggest news story in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Cinderella | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

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