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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week France's Vichy Government banned Pernod and all other aperitifs containing more than 16% alcohol.* Alleged reason: Pernod caused men & women to quarrel and get nervous disorders, instead of becoming loving parents...
Hitchcock's foreign correspondent is one Johnny Jones (Joel McCrea), who gets his job because his boss thinks Europe ought to be covered by a crime reporter instead of an economist. Johnny gets his assignment to find out whether a Low Countries statesman named Van Meer (Albert Basserman) has a chance to delay war. Johnny's company includes a suave peace crusader (Herbert Marshall) and his wide-eyed daughter (Laraine Day), a cucumberish British newshawk (George Sanders), a character (Robert Benchley) who is to the life what Robert Benchley undoubtedly would be if he had been a foreign...
...decisive battles (largely through the tactical resource of Gates's brilliant subordinate, Benedict Arnold) he had to hand over his sword. Thus ended the only invasion down the Hudson Valley that had even the faintest chance of substantial success. A new invader would advance with motor transport instead of bateaux, with tanks and aircraft instead of Indian allies. The chances of whether he could be defeated would depend largely on the means the U. S. could muster to counter these weapons...
...philosopher's eye. In 1931-32 Dr. Hocking, a Congregationalist, chairmaned the Appraisal Commission of the Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry. The Commission produced the controversial Re-Thinking Missions (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), which proposed far-reaching changes in missionary work, scandalized conservatives by insisting that Christians, instead of attacking non-Christian religions, should seek to understand them and cooperate with them. Mission boards gave the report short shrift, but Philosopher Hocking re-pondered it long & hard. Last week he published the result of his cogitations-Living Religions and a World Faith (Macmillan; $2.50)-and declared more firmly...
Dostoevski's life was as subterranean as the human nature he wrote of. As a young writer he haunted the windy corners and foul alleys of hated St. Petersburg, was sentenced to death for revolutionary conspiracy, instead spent four years in prison, six years' exile in Siberia. Jailed with murderers & thieves, he exclaimed: "What a wonderful people! On the whole I did not lose my time." While his consumptive wife died slowly, he pursued a wretched affair with Polina Suslova, a wild, rebellious hussy who bobbed her hair, wore dark glasses, never went to church. He lusted...