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Those were the days when you could see the salmon fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OREGON: The Chinook Are Running | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

The artists Repin and Surikov fixed in oil a sense of Russian gusto: Repin's Reply of the Cossacks to the Sultan curses in color. General Suvarov, who slaughtered the Turks at Ismail and the Poles at Warsaw, showed that in war a Russian can be ruthless. General Kutuzov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia At War: PSYCHOLOGICAL FRONT: What to Die For | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Samara was founded at the easternmost bend of the Volga River in the 16th Century, during the reign of the weakling Theodore, son of Ivan the Terrible. It was to be a fortress against the wandering tribes of the steppe. At first its citizens were mostly Cossacks, but in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Samara's Memories | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

A man at an Indian agency hugged his radio last week for news from St. Mary's Hospital in Pierre, S. Dak., and learned that he was a father. Though prairie schooners no longer cross that formidable State, it is still for many miles as empty and lonely as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prairie Radio | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Since "New York Town" is given top billing at the U.T., the supposition is that it's the better of the two current attractions there. But as a matter of fact, neither picture is any better or any worse than the other, though they're at different poles so far...

Author: By J. M., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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