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Almost every American in his 40s or older remembers where he was on the April afternoon in 1945 when he heard that Roosevelt had died. John Morton Blum, now a historian at Yale, was then 23 and serving in the Pacific as a Navy lieutenant, executive officer of a patrol craft, PC 616. His small ship had just arrived at Tulagi in the Solomon Islands and had routinely asked for news. Thus came the message that Roosevelt was dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

Sales are "down a bit," but "firearms are always a big seller," at Blum Jewelry, and this year is no exception. Business is best when "you get the wife coming in and buying her husband a little Christmas present," salesman Theodore J. Hunt said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gun, Sock Sales Steady in Slow Season | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

...Masters) and Lisa (Brooke Adams) are lovers. As free spirits in the modern kingdom of swing, they do not live together. But Lisa would like to be much less free. When she proposes an exchange of apartment keys, the specter of impending matrimonial claustrophobia chills Philip. Michael (Mark Blum), a chance friend, has a reverse problem. His unseen bride of less than a month has deserted him for a fling with her music teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Swing Quartet | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

...Stripes screenplay, by Len Blum, Dan Goldberg and Harold Ramis, was tailor-made for Murray, who plays the role of John Winger, a lazy, listless yet lovable failure. After losing his job, his car and his girlfriend in that order. Winger, along with his sidekick Russell Zisky (Ramis), decides to join the Army simply because he is too lazy to do anything else. The problems quickly (and predictably) begin when Winger--an incessant clown--meets up with the brass of the United States Military...

Author: By Charles W. Slack, | Title: Ten-SHUN! | 7/3/1981 | See Source »

...they were mentioned. Instead, the approved resolution "strongly condemns" Israel for its raid on the reactor and urges it to pay damages to Iraq, which was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it has suffered." There is nothing that could compel Israel to make such restitution, however, and Blum had already told the council that his government would not pay Iraq "a brass farthing" for destroying the reactor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: A Harsh Rebuke for Israel | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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