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...moan of doves in immemorial elms drowns out the faint echo of World War II, Authoress Thirkell seems to say hat while her Marling gentry may be vague and snobbish, they are good people o depend on in a crisis that never really comes. With a few comedy feathers stuck in an old hat, she leads the Marlings' stately stroll through the outskirts of war, leaves them peering absently toward the uknown tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Far from the Madding Fight | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...game itself should shape up into a duel between a speedy running attack and an increasingly potent passing offensive. Indian hopes to reverse the 1941 result depend on their backfield, one of the finest in the country. Crimson hopes to ring up their second consecutive triumph against the Big Green depend on their passers, not the finest aerial artists in the nation but a good bunch of throwers nevertheless...

Author: By Burton VAN Vort, | Title: CRIMSON AT SEASON TURNING POINT | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

...French, on the other hand, Le Corbeiller pointed out, had a glorious past, a past which blinded them to the future. They did not depend on their technique, they didn't care about industry, they lived for their art and literature. Even today the French do not realize their need for technique, in fact they censure technique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Corbeiller Explains Rapid Fall of France | 10/14/1942 | See Source »

...Roosevelt Problem. Today Flynn actually can do little for this party except have his resignation handy. Beyond the management of multifarious little details, such as shipping speakers into hard-fought districts, Flynn must depend mainly on the real chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Franklin Roosevelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Double Trouble | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...advance to the Don and down that stream and finally reach the Volga, if we continuously storm Stalingrad- which we shall also take, you may depend on it-then all that means nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Great Commentator | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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