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...sexy, Jew-hating, frankly brutal sheet is Das Schwarze Korps (the Black Guard), official organ of Nazi Germany's blackshirt, elite SS Guards. Publisher is Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo chief. Its editor is blond, cold, handsome Gunter d'Alquen, 29, a onetime newspaperman on Berlin's important Völkischer Beobachter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Black Guard Isms | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

Elmer Lincoln Irey, Robert's dad, has been called the No. 1 civil servant of the U. S. Broad-shouldered and blond, he looks and talks like a Missouri-born Sunday-school superintendent-which he is. People who don't like him-he is particularly unpopular with malefactors of wealth -say Elmer has a heart of ice. The simplest way for the Federal Government to catch a crook is to look into his income-tax returns. Elmer Irey has done just that, long and efficiently. The story goes that big gamblers nowadays are careful to station a bookkeeper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: T-Man | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...UNCLE-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Author Cabell's Hamlet is the purported original of Shakespeare's, as found in assorted Viking sagas. Like the Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only when his Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Recent & Readable: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...himself in an antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar and trundles down to the wings, where the waiting Kleinchen inspects him from top to toe, sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that his hunting horn is in place. At the murmuring strains of Wagner's prelude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Solidarity | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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