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...brackets choose the year when they would serve. Many Congressmen would like to correct the law now. But General Hershey would put off making any changes until the U. S. is ready to settle down to regular, permanent conscription in annual classes. Meantime he would rock along with the existing act until the Army has accumulated a reserve of trained conscripts (or actually needs a wartime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flaws | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Expired. In Columbia, La., William Heard got a letter from a Little Rock, Ark. paper saying his subscription would expire March 8. Responding that he was under sentence to hang March 7, Convict Heard concluded: "In view of the fact that I do not know my future address I am afraid our pleasant relations must be severed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

Fifteen years ago, English, which has always headed the humanities, had an unquestioned supremacy, but Economics replaced it in 1929. The years 1934-36 saw English once again in the lead, but last year it hit rock-bottom, taking fourth place under Government, Economics, and History. No general tendency is obvious in the upswing of English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1944 Returns English to First Place as Concentration Choice | 3/18/1941 | See Source »

Last month a small British naval force appeared off the barren, waterless, craggy, four-square-mile Italian rock of Castellorizo, near the Dodecanese Islands-two miles off the Turkish coast and 60 miles from Rhodes (where the Germans were this week reported to have sent Stuka dive-bombers). After brief opposition, the British forced a landing and took the islet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Hit-and-Ruin Raids | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...whomever they follow, most of the artists have injected into their pictures a gay note which seems to belie the state of the world. Even George Rock's "Sad Scene", almost a line exception, seems merely a tour de force. F. F. A. Bruck's caricature and John Holabrid's two watercolors are particularly happy, and done in a fresh manner. Howard Turner's watercolor "Manhattan" together with his "Nude"--a sharp study done with a minimum of line--combine to make his probably the best and most original contribution to the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ARTS | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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