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Ticket to Hell. The President had expressed himself as aghast; he made the announcement suddenly, from a train-stop at Corpus Christi, Tex., "with a feeling of deepest horror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder in Tokyo | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...that he can talk perfectly normally while hiding the ball in his mouth. IN practice sessions several candidates, playing against the CRIMSON Varsity, were amazed and said so. One instance stands out especially, a news cafligsk umbubble craanenk tis fras derdenderder- sorry well, anyway, it's tricky as all hell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON FATTED CALF TO BE DEVOURED BY CRIMSON TODAY | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

...first billing, but the biggest attraction at the Met happens to be a war picture what am a war picture--"Desert Victory." Another one of those superlative British films, "Desert Victory" records the rout of Rommel by Montgomery's hardy Eighth Army over the 1300 miles of sandy hell that separates El Alamein from Tripoli. Unlike the typical Hollywood war film, "Desert Victory" shows battle to be neither ridiculously pretty nor ostentatiously heroic--but rather a bewildering melange of noise, confusion and quiet tragedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOERS | 4/23/1943 | See Source »

...have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued" by life among clever agnostics, regains his faith, does his duty in London's air raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sermons in Reverse | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...from the Enemy. It does not matter haw small the sins are, provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. In deed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without mile stones, without signposts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sermons in Reverse | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

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