¶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, ...

It’s an idea beloved by screenwriters: the perfect crime. But in Hollywood movies, even the cleverest plot is usually derailed by an unforeseen hitch. Now a real-life heist in Germany seems to have ...

Which of the characters you’ve played has had the biggest effect on you? Naafeh Dhillon, LAHORE, PAKISTAN Betty Anne Waters is still walking the earth, so it was a huge responsibility for me to do ...

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) ...

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 ...

As the Continental Congress prepared to vote on the question of American independence in 1776, it appointed a committee for what would turn out, in hindsight, to be a momentous task, but one that at ...

Thanks to his chart success with Britney Spears, Celine Dion, the Backstreet Boys, ‘N Sync and other acts, Swedish songwriter Max Martin has been called a one-man hit factory. The reclusive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the curtain calls for his 2004 theater piece, Meet the Browns–one of the strange comedy-musical-melodramas that have made Tyler Perry a hero to the older black Christian community–the ...

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 ...