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...Tobey went on clamoring. If his "proof" was thin, nevertheless convoying was probably the next great decision the U.S. must make. The President, whether he had or had not decided, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tobey's Nose | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Like other food experts. Dr. Chandler believes that reducers should eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, avoid sugar and starchy foods that have no vitamins, only calories. Best way to get thin, he advises, is to eat as much fish, meat, chicken and eggs as the heart desires. The theory that protein is hard on the kidneys, says Dr. Chandler, is nonsense; it is almost impossible for a normal person to eat too much meat. Vegetarianism is not only "silly" but "unsafe,'' for beans, peas, nuts and other high-protein vegetables do not contain all the necessary compounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Dancer Evan-Burrows Fontaine: ". . . in a repertory of exotic ballets, showing what a thin line divides the scamper from the dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hammond Speaks Again | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

...Field, to the First Interceptor Command, went big-game-hunting John C. McDonnell. To Fort George Wright, near Spokane, Wash., went the Second Air Force's interceptor commander, long-faced, leathery Carlyle H. Wash, just returned from a month's study of Britain's air defenses. Thin-haired, scholarly Walter H. Frank took charge of the Third Command at Tampa, Fla. The Fourth went to bald, affable Millard F. Harmon, an Army pilot since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The U. S. v. Bombs | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...Thin and pale people walking listlessly in the streets . . . absolute lack of vitamins in the diet of the masses of the people." These words describing the German populace were spoken last week by thin-lipped Dr. Herbert Alonzo Spencer, Senior Surgeon of the U.S. Public Health Service, just returned from Germany. The German civilian army has paid and is paying for the military might of the Reich. Last week German Sculptor Jean Sauer of Mainz announced that he had invented an ersatz coffin made of resin, which the Nazi authorities "will permit to be used instead of wood coffins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: All Quiet on the Home Front | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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