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...world's oldest democracy, which had been having a hell of a time in World War II, was temporarily bailed out of trouble last week by the world's biggest democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Aid to Iceland | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...trips to the U.S., for the National Air Races in 1931 and 1933, he chilled crowds by picking up handkerchiefs with a hook on his wing tip. He dived a type of plane he had never flown before under the 135-foot clearance of New York's Hell Gate Bridge. But he distrusted speedy skyscraper elevators, preferred stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Nine Are Not Enough | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Myrna Loy blinks sweetly through hell and high water, and if she isn't completely oblivious to what's going on, she is well on her way. Asta, the poor man's Rin-Tin-Tin, is back again, but to most moviegoers his cute trick of looking for stray fire-hydrants is about as worn out as the hydrants must be by this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 11/26/1941 | See Source »

...nightmare retreat of the British Army across France and the howling hell of Dunkirk, the U.S. Army found a pregnant sermon for its officers to ponder. For the past month the Army has heard that sermon delivered by a man who had come through the awful works and could tell how. Pink-cheeked, 45-year-old British Brigadier Thomas Needham Furnival Wilson, D.S.O., M.C., returned to Washington last week (and set off forthwith for the Carolina maneuvers) after a 30-day lecture tour in U.S. Army posts. Total of his officer audiences: close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Sermon | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Though Ringleader Sutphin may never realize his dream of a hockey World Series between the champions of the American and National Leagues, the up-&-coming American circuit puts on a hell-for-leather hockey show attracts almost as many spectators as the National League. Last year Cleveland's Barons outdrew the New York Rangers. Nearly as large a following had the little Hershey Bears, owned and operated by a trust fund set up by chocolate-rich Milton S. Hershey for his chocolate-bar paradise at Hershey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Breaking the Ice | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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