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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader in Confusion. Adolf Hitler has had little to say for himself of late, nor has that little carried much punch.* Last week he issued a pallid message calling upon German youth to maintain an "unshakable belief in victory." In his last public speech, to party leaders early last month, he urged his people to rise above the shifting tide of battle, to cling to "the faith that tells us that this war will end in a mighty German victory if only our will remains unwavering." For the man who once delivered victories by the carload, to talk of "belief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Symptoms and Diagnosis | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

Various gentlemen in Company Baker who have felt the sting of H.T. Garvey's various talents are beginning to wonder where he spent his youth. First of all he picked out the handsome, robust and be mustached Wally Landis to spar with during those two weeks of boxing instruction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 11/5/1943 | See Source »

Probably the most famous living Negro, Paul Leroy Robeson was born 45 years ago in Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play in Manhattan, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...appearance makes it difficult to believe that she worked in a tobacco plant in her youth, propagandized soldiers in the years of the revolution. In 1932, after Stalin issued his famous dictum: Let us be gay, Comrades, Mme. Molotov became head of the Soviet perfume trust. Said she of her work: "My husband works on their souls, I on their faces." She put rouge and lipstick on the face of Russia's womanhood, filled Russia's air with the odor of cheap perfume. In the interest of cosmetics, she visited the U.S. in 1936, lunched with Mrs. Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Stalin's Hammer | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...horse again. In Clearfield, Utah, a farmer who tried to heat his bath water by building a fire under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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