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Last week rumors flew again of Nazi troop concentrations against Iceland in northern Norway. Some observers saw the pattern for invasion in the attack on Crete. Should the Nazis hazard it. they would find Iceland twelve times as large, and with a population three times as small as Crete-much better suited to parachute and glider tactics. But Iceland lies at least five times as far from nearest Nazi bases as Crete from the mainland of Greece. Since last May, when Canadian troops landed to guard armyless, navyless Iceland, the British have put, according to some reports...
This unhistorical observation serves well enough for a peg on which to hang another musical from the Zanuck cradle of history. Its pattern is familiar; the three principals rehearsed it almost to the letter in Tin Pan Alley (TIME, Dec. 9). But this time it curdles...
...collection includes, besides the Paracas polychrome jar in the shape of a human face, two early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure...
...that time the invariable wartime economic pattern had gone far. Shortages had developed, competitive bidding by Government agencies and civilians had sent all prices into an almost vertical rise (see chart, p. /
...week long the Luftwaffe did some dark electioneering for Candidate Smith -by striking, night after shrieking night, at Britain's port towns. Candidate Smith's cause did not suffer by the fact that Birmingham was comparatively spared, that the pattern for the moment was a new and ominous one: Southampton, Portsmouth, Portland, Devonport (Plymouth), Milford Haven, Pembroke-all the stations and installations of Britain's most important weapon in Britain's most important battle...