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With his first novel, Slim (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934), a story of the linemen who string high-voltage transmission lines, Author Haines, himself a lineman, made a clean jump from transmission poles to best-seller ranks and Hollywood. Though Slim seemed a little too slick for its subject, it nevertheless...
Thus the basis was laid for Greater Germany to intervene later, save the Sudeten Germans from "persecution." If the Hungarians, Poles and other racial minorities in Czechoslovakia were to take similar stands and get away with them, the Republic would simply blow up-which would suit Hitler even better than...
In hostile Moscow, Father Walsh prowled around hunting the body, was once within a few feet of it without being permitted to go farther. Finally in 1923 he asked outright for it, argued that its continued loss made the Poles hostile to Russia. Soviet authorities took him to the medical...
After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down...
In Minnesota, among the Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Finns, rich & poor alike, he found a thrifty, hardworking, hospitable, good-natured people, whose few so-called Reds were only followers of peaceable Norman Thomas. His major discovery was that "they are like electric cookstoves and concert violinists. They get hot slowly . . . but...