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He was still staring at the crowd's clothing when the big Negro ran past him. The black face was bisected by a toothy grin. Close behind came Mather, waving his cane and sputtering imprecations. Vag stepped back through the slit to get out of the way, and the change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/13/1941 | See Source »

Testifying in a Los Angeles court on behalf of two women (afterwards acquitted) on trial for practicing optometry without a license, lank, brooding British Author Aldous Huxley described the improvement in his vision which had come from exercises they had given him - including staring at Mexican jumping beans and bouncing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Still boiling mad was Ed McNew when, two days later, he started across the street toward the courthouse to answer a charge of drunken driving. Suddenly, from behind a corner, out popped Photographer Jones again and leveled his camera. That was too much for Ed McNew. He grabbed at his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Justice Upheld | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

Far from proving noncontroversial, the Lubin remarks set off a bomb. The bomber: John L. Lewis' general counsel and right-hand man, onetime Wall Street law cub, later New Dealer, now widely suspected of being a Communist fellow traveler, Lee Pressman. In his cold, incisive way, staring straight across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR,RAILROADS,MERCHANDISING: The Wages of Defense | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

The magnitude of world confusion could only be realized when the thousands of press dispatches, the millions of radio murmurings, and all the display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ominous Presentiments | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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