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...young Herman McCarthy, Tom Dewey's assistant, build up a long, involved case about Fritz Kuhn taking $717.02 to pay for the shipment of a woman's furniture-not his wife's. They heard the judge ask: "Was she your mistress?" and they heard Fritz Kuhn roar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Trouble | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...crowds will roar as the great Harvard-Yale classic is fought out below them. The crowds will rush out to partake in mass celebration after the final whistle. But behind the scenes different and more somber contests will take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Sophomore Managers Will Be Appointed Directly After Game Today | 11/25/1939 | See Source »

...assuring and reassuring statements, persuaded the Dutch and Belgian press to keep cool heads. But all Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER," "ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND REPORT." Piqued, the Dutch Government threatened to expel foreign newsmen who sensationalized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEUTRALS: Good Offices | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Last fortnight the British Lion, which since World War II began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Air Lion | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

...guns roar, planes zoom, and red blood flow on the battlefields! Civilization is collapsing, but bigger and better books will be written about its sinking. Strangely enough, it appears that most of them will be on one subject, British army life, for that is what publishers seem to crave today. Eleven book concerns in eleven different countries have just awarded a $15,000 prize for a novel on this theme by Major Henriques of His Majesty's Territorials. Now Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winners must take a back seat while the doughty Major assumes his place in the forefront...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR BABY OR INCUNABULA? | 11/14/1939 | See Source »

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