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...Magic Face (Columbia) will come as news to Allied veterans who still think they liberated Europe in World War II by defeating the Germans. The real cause of Germany's defeat, it now appears, is that Hitler wasn't Hitler any more; he was really Janus the Great (Luther Adler), a professional impersonator bent on destroying the Reich by making all the wrong military decisions...
...week long official Washington was trying to look concerned but calm, determined but not belligerent. It was a difficult, and perhaps impossible, role to bring off. The Administration was trying to wear two faces without looking like Janus: a militant, chin-out attitude towards Korea; an unruffled, unmilitant countenance for the rest of the world to see. Harry Truman indicated he would not be stampeded into ringing all the alarm bells to put out a fuse-box fire...
...Manhattan, Adolf Hitler's custom-built, gangster-model Mercedes-Benz (135-m.p.h. speed, bulletproof glass, adjustable armored plate) was delivered to its buyer, a man named Christopher G. Janus. Having done more looking backward than ahead, Janus admitted: "Now that I've got it, I'm not sure . . . what to do with...
...Like Janus, the two-faced god of the Romans, the Crimson is looking in both directions during the period preceding its straw vote (on the Roosevelt-Landon election) . . . editorials will appear by . . . two Crimson editorial writers of opposing views. The former tends to look in the general direction of Kansas; the latter veers toward Washington." (October...
...Facts of Life. The nation generally applauded Harry Truman's action in calling Congress. But Truman, like Janus, had faced two ways...