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...Since alcoholics, including many dangerous characters likely to commit "explosive" acts, often comprise one-fifth of the inhabitants of a jail or penitentiary, they should receive treatment as well as jailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drunkenness, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...capable of declaring his love for his young fellow teacher Louise Martin (Maureen O'Hara) and of standing openly with his friends against the Nazi conquerors. But the betrayal and killing of people he loves goads Lory into taking arms against the sea of troubles. He commits a blind, almost reflex act of near murder, which is forestalled only by the suicide of his intended victim. On trial for the murder he did not commit, the morally outraged schoolmaster speaks out at length against the Nazis, and further proceeds in open court to reveal his love for Louise Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...mask in his left hand with four fingers on top, look his adversary straight in the eye, bring the blade of his weapon up before his right eye, then sweep it down and to the right. The blade, says Nadi, must whistle through the air, must under no circumstances commit the "frightful discord" of striking the floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swordsman | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Balding, genial Frank Walker, chair man of the Democratic National Commit tee, last week returned to Washington from a month's political tour of the U.S., stuck his tongue in his well-rounded pink cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conduct for 1944 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

There was nothing unbelievable about this story to the Japanese, who recognize facts as relative and variable shadows of certain innate truths incomprehensible to all Westerners. When an unpleasant fact does embarrass the Japanese, they either ignore it or else commit harakiri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Another Flying Train | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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