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...only people in Indonesia who were really contented were the soldiers of the Dutch army, who had been conscripted for unpopular service in a steaming, tropical land. Last week the sides of Dutch army trucks, filled with tall blond soldiers, bore chalked signs like: Tabeh, we gaan de rommel verlaten (Goodbye, we're pulling out of this mess) and Doe het self maar verder. Gaan naar moeder (Do it yourself. We're going home to mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chip on the Shoulder | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

This time was different, Anna Thompson felt. She and her husband went to a white farmhouse near Hickory Corners, Mich, to examine a blond, blue-eyed boy of six. Nobody knew much about Tommy O'Neill who was small and shy. About all the police did know was that he had been handed over to a Mexican couple in Toledo, Ohio about the time of Ronnie's disappearance. Michigan welfare authorities took him from the Mexicans after they moved to Lansing, boarded him at the Hickory Corners farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Long Search | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

There he grooms a husky youth of the blond, Aryan type for the championship. But the slick U.S. gamblers have crossed the ocean, and they put female temptation in the way of the Blond Aryan. Some shots of late nights, cigarettes, etc. make it plain that the Blond Aryan is out of training. In the final fight he appears a pushover, but the hero rushes to the ringside and inspires his protégé to get in there and win-which he does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Hair of the Dog | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...that there were three other similar pictures current, one of them Shkola Nenavisti (The School of Hate), which was about the Irish rebellion. They found, further, that all four films, although they had soundtracks in Russian, were simply described as "foreign films," without hint of origin. The prevalence of blond Teutonic types led to a search of Dr. Goebbels' files. It turned out that Die Letzte Runde and The School of Hate (in German, Mein Leben fü Irland) were Nazi war-hate films, and that they had had their premières in Berlin in 1941-the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROPAGANDA: The Hair of the Dog | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...second play of the game, Michigan's spinning fullback gave the ball to a halfback who smacked Army's line for two yards. When the players unpiled, blond, 188-lb. Chuck Ortmann, Michigan's passing ace, was lugged off on a stretcher. That was the first omen of calamity. Then it seemed as though the big stadium had begun falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Obsession | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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