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Though "time and change shall naught avail to break the friendships formed at Yale," friendships formed at Princeton apparently do not stand the gaff so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Before We Part | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Germany is naught, but the individual German is much-although they like to believe the opposite. The Germans will have to be, like the Jews, uprooted, and dispersed the world over, before all the good which is in them and which would work towards the well-being of all nations can be brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Franco's threat bore the Axis stamp and perhaps foreshadowed Axis strategy. Whether Washington's recent diplomacy -kind words to Franco from President Roosevelt, loans, trade pacts-had come utterly to naught remained to be seen. U.S. relations with Franco were as cloudy, and perhaps as expedient, as those with Admiral Darlan. But U.S. and British military men took no chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, STRATEGY: Franco and the Rock | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Crimson did some mighty pounding at the plate but a sloppy Brooklyn-Dodger finale left all their efforts for naught. Phelan pitched respectable ball until the sixth and then gave up no more than four hits. Irv Rudman was called in to collect the last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Slips in Last Two Frames, Bows to Army 7-6 | 7/22/1942 | See Source »

...Loretta Young, can't stand being double-crossed for her own good, divorces Lucius, and marries a banker. The highlight of the picture concerns Lucius' efforts at appeasement, in which he sends everything from plumbers to chicken dinners to his recalcitrant ex. When all his efforts go for naught, the law provides a happy ending. The divorce wasn't legal...

Author: By J. A. F., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 6/3/1942 | See Source »

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