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Trade with the Devil. There were explanations. Many of them made immediate sense in much the same way that the military deal in North Africa made sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Fuel for Franco | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...transfigure any sympathetic reader. Saroyan is one of the few contemporary writers who can articulate, in terms of common life, the indispensable text, Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. The pity of it is that they are seldom able to see, very clearly, the devil and the man caught in the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pure in Heart | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...twenty-one months he returned to civilian life as a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, in which he was promoted to his present grade in 1930. His home is in Stroudsburg, Pa.; his specialy is neuropsychiatry; and his hobby is authoring books (among them his autobiographical "The Devil and the Doctor") and pulp-paper thrillers with scientific plots. He came on duty in the present emergency in June, 1941, and had tours of duty at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; and Camp Lee, Va., before joining the Chaplain School staff on March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARMY CHAPLAIN SCHOOL | 2/26/1943 | See Source »

...Britain and the U.S. the problem was plainer every day: Russia holds too many trumps to be finessed in the game of politics. Equally plain: if the partners in war do not lay their cards on the table soon, there will be the devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Or Else | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...Road Montgomery has achieved an adaptation of a classic situation: he has the devil between him and the deep. And there he may have to fight another battle as bitter as that which he fought at El Alamein where the Road began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Pilgrimage to Mareth | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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