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Polish Shadows. What seemed to have spoiled a beautiful friendship was Mr. Willkie's very tactfully expressed concern over the eventual fate of Poland and the Baltic nations (see p. 18). Proclaimed Pravda with an air of angry finality: "The question of the near Baltic republics is an internal affair of the U.S.S.R." And: "In respect to Finland and Poland . . . the Soviet Union will be able to get an agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also...
...battles deciding the fate of generations...
Died. Thomas Wright ("Fats") Waller, 39, famed jazz pianist and composer (TIME, Aug. 9); of bronchopneumonia; in Kansas City. A Harlem pastor's son, portly, powerful, 2/o-lb. Fats Waller wrote such jazz classics as Honeysuckle Rose, Ain't Misbehavin', My Fate Is in Your Hands, I've Got a Feelin' I'm Fallin'. He once defined swing (for a serious young woman): "Lady...
...Lord Strabolgi, a voluble, retired lieutenant commander of the Royal Navy, said in the House of Lords that the next 100 days "will be as important in the history of the world as the 100 days before Waterloo. . . . Then Napoleon met his fate, and Hitler will meet his if we act bravely and swiftly...
...night Fate scratched timorously at Ca-Reer Garson's dressing-room door. There was a man to see her. "If it's stockings," called Miss Garson, "I don't want any." "Beggin' your pardon, Miss," said the stage doorkeeper, "He's from Mr. Mayer." "Hyphens and all?" gasped Miss Garson...