¶Gestapoboss Heinrich Himmler’s Schwarze Korps exhorted able-bodied German boys, who usually go to the front at 18, to marry first and beget children. Reason: “Even if the present war is lost, ...

In the Belgian Congo last week massed tom-tom drummers practiced a welcome tattoo. Prosperous Negro shopkeepers climbed up wooden ladders and draped the Congolese flag (a golden star on a blue field) ...

Members of the Manila Stock Exchange solemnly met last week to consider ways to start over. As they sadly scanned the charred and blasted city, they knew they were starting from scratch. The City. In ...

As they do at countless collegiate parties everywhere, the couples wriggled to the watusi and gyrated to the jerk, while recorded drums and saxophones resounded in the dimly lit apartment of a ...

Last week Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood died in Baltimore of apoplexy. She was the only child of a great editor and her death will have its reverberations through the middle west, the reason is simple.

Daisuke Namba, student, who recently attempted to assassinate Prince Regent Hirohito (Time, Jan. 7), brought shame upon his family. His father, a Member of Parliament until his son’s act forced him to ...

Normally a courageous feminist, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is accustomed to name annually “The Ten Women of the Year.” This week she not only did not name Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as one of her ten ...

Starting with superb confidence, the 20th Century plunged vigorously forward from ambush to ambush. Other ages may have suffered greater agonies; none suf fered greater surprises. Much that seemed for ...

The U.S.—moppets and moppet-minded grownups—buys some 25,000,000 comic books each month. Are they good for children? Those who say yes include Dr. Lauretta Bender, psychiatrist at New York City’s ...

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job. —Epistle of St. James IF he lived today, Job would undoubtedly be a fan of the New York Mets. So would Sir Francis ...

At 9:20 a.m. on July 7, 2010, undercover officers from the Los Angeles Police Department stepped out of an unmarked car and arrested 57-year-old Lonnie Franklin Jr. as he came out of his house on 81st ...

The Air Force calls the situation “Launch Facilities Down.” On Oct. 23, a Wyoming-based squadron of 50 nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) — enough firepower to kill some 20 ...