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Since Franco's victory the Falange has become intensely unpopular with virtually all other Spanish groups. A favorite Madred café joke runs that the Falange has unified all Spain-in hatred of the Falange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Man in a Sweat | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...Across the road from the hotel is a terraced café, whose owners greeted us like tourists, with post cards and souvenirs. A man raved angrily about the Germans, who had taken his donkeys, cows and pigs. 'Every man from whom the Germans have stolen anything should be given a rifle,' he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cook's Tour | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Karl Horak lingered longer than usual over his glass of wine in a Prague café, and because he tarried, missed the bus that would have dropped him at his home town. No matter; he could walk; it was not far. He got a lift part way, then took a short cut through the woods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Ordeal of Karl Horak | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Angeles, a café proprietor finally had his front window permanently lettered in gold leaf: "Monterey Café-Waitress Wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Composer. Harry Ruby is the Tin Pan Alley prototype of a Horatio Alger hero. Born 48 years ago on Manhattan's East Side, he managed to get through grammar school, took a few music lessons and embarked on a childhood career as a café piano pounder and vaudeville actor. At 17 he got a job with Music Publisher Gus Edwards and wrote the first Ruby hit, When Those Sweet Hawaiian Babies Roll Their Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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