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...unquestionable heroism of these pincer-trapped soldiers is the sugar on Author Plievier's German pill. For, having aroused in every German heart a profound compassion for his glorious dead, he icily proceeds to ask: who caused them to die so horribly, and to what end? How does Nordic supremacy look when more than a quarter of a million of its devotees are hobbling and crawling, half-mad and half-dead, through an icy, foreign wasteland? How does the image of the divine Führer look to his worshipers in the moment when they themselves have "become bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Epistle to the Germans | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

Franklin, who never took a sleeping pill in his life ("I can sleep standing or walking"), hopes to put ipecac in rat paste, and other poisons that people sometimes take by mistake. Said he last week: "It isn't only the money which I may make out of this which is exciting, it's the fact that we'll be saving lots of lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Built-in Lifeguard | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...crowd of 75 soda-drinking and candy-munching spectators heard Hyman Pill vote for hifself 15 times, thereby preventing any majority vote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1,220 Ballots, Yet Mayor's Job Open | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...long as the anti-Communist powers sit back waiting for the next Communist move. Marshall created a crisis for the Russians when they had to decide last summer whether they would take part in the ERP meeting in Paris. They didn't, but it was a bitter pill for their satellites to swallow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Battlefields of Peace | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...than most Scotland Yard goose-chases. Mason does a credible job as a doctor who is frustrated by his lack of control over mortality, and who plans his revenge as a gesture of independence. Mason the murderer, with a body on his hands, contrasts effectively with a disenchanted country pill-roller who is guiltless, but parttles of the hundreds he has "killed' in his practice. Further contrast comes when Mason scampers behind a railing to hide his crime from a gardener coming home whistling hymns. The gardener, by the way, is the only one who doesn't succumb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

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