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Finland last week hinted that it was ready to call it quits against Russia, cease being an unofficial Axis ally. Feelers in the Stockholm Dagens Nyheter and the Finnish press were followed by an official Finnish radio broadcast of newspaper editorials. The gist...
Many Germans think that Colonel General Halder had a lot to do with the distribution last year of some curious documents called "Elucidations of Communiqués." Their discreetly veiled gist: "My God, let's be careful; Hitler is trying to be Napoleon." But, when Hitler displaced the Army's commander, Field Marshal von Brauchitsh, the change merely brought Halder closer to his Führer...
These lessons she passes on to her readers in the form of still-life parables, whose gist is that what is good in the world is good because it is useful to life...
Radio fans two winters ago were astounded to hear a ballplayer guest-starring on Information Please. He hit safely on the following: the difference between poi, soy, loy, oy; the gist of the Bordereau letter; an outline of the Willy-Nicky correspondence; the names of this generation's brightest comet, brightest planet, brightest satellite, brightest star. The ballplayer who made John Kieran look dumb was Morris ("Moe") Berg, catcher-coach of the Boston...
...desks of the network executives lay the neat briefs their lawyers had prepared for submission against FCC next week in a New York Federal court. They asked the court to annul the regulations issued last year by FCC and later suspended (TIME, May 12, Oct. 20). Gist of the networks' argument: "1) we are not monopolies; 2) but even if we were, FCC would not be entitled under law to determine the fact or to regulate against it." Last week's anti-trust suits looked at first like the Government's answer...