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Strong indication that the game would end shortly was seen in the arrival at Ankara last week of the Vichy Cabinet's Undersecretary Jacques Gabriel Benoist-Méchin, reportedly to arrange an evacuation of 20,000 Vichy troops over the Turkish-Syrian border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MIDDLE EASTERN THEATER: Game Over? | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

Physically, Bob Hope's biggest asset is his chin-a granitic abutment fit to warm the heart of any quarry-bound sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 7, 1941 | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...rivals much-talked-of General Hu Tsung-nan, leader of the influential "Whampoa Clique," as candidate to succeed the Generalissimo. He and Hu are the only two generals who are permitted to receive orders direct from the Generalissimo without the countersignature of politically powerful Minister for War Ho Ying-chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...swank Bar Harbor he married Laura Jay Wurts, daughter of Alexander Jay Wurts, Carnegie Tech professor and Westinghouse inventor, and great-great-great granddaughter of John Jay (1745-1829), the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Wiped out in the Bull Market Crash and "fed up to the chin with the Depression and the miasma that was enveloping Washington," Galloper Chandler in 1931 took his wife and two small daughters and galloped off to Europe. A student of Naziism since 1927, he was received ten years later at Nuremberg by the most successful man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo, Chandler! | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

Delivery. In Muskegon, Mich., Charlie Chin smelled an odor unlike a wet washing, scampered to the basement of his laundry, found himself knee deep in 1,600 gallons of fuel oil that a confused truckman had piped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

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