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French Canadians revised the evening routine: cows were milked early, supper served late. Quebec's most popular radio serial, Un Homme et Son Péché (A Man and His Sin), was back...
...book. Then he returned to his birthplace, Ste. Adèle, to set forth in a monthly pamphlet his views on almost everything. Since his views are never tame, he offended nearly everyone. Finally, he wrote a short novel, and the radio adaptation, begun in 1939, became Un Homme et...
Automakers' big plans for little cars quietly folded last week. Henry Ford II, who had talked about a new car cheaper than any now on the market, announced that the Ford company had discontinued the division which had been working on the new auto (TIME, Feb. 4 et seq.). General Motors, which had recently set up a new car division in Chevrolet, announced that it too was shelving its plans for the present. It saw no way to get materials for new plants. In short, harassed automakers, up to their cowlicks in production troubles, were too discouraged to take...
...When the Senate War Investigating Committee set off its explosion of scandals about the Garsson brothers' string of 4.2 mortar-shell factories (TIME, July 15, et seq.), it also touched off a series of reports that many hundreds of U.S. soldiers had been killed or maimed by defective mortars...
...Shoot a Prisoner." Similar cynicism had long echoed in the U.S. among civilians and G.I.s alike. Since the trials of 16 guards and camp officers began last December (TIME, Dec. 31 et seq.), they had listened, appalled, to the grim testimony of former Lichfield prisoners. Men had been beaten there with fists and rifle butts till they were unconscious, then revived and ordered to clean up their own blood. Prisoners who complained of hunger were gorged with three meals at a time, then dosed with castor oil. Hours of calisthenics, of standing "nose and toes" to a guardhouse wall were...