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...Editor Elliott 1) keeps snapping at the office pest (Ray Milland) who insists on calling her Boss-Lady, 2) cannot bring herself to marry her lover (Warner Baxter) when divorce at last sets him free, 3) is attracted, to her own bewilderment, by a massively masculine cinemactor (Jon Hall). Asleep, she has spectacular dreams, complete with music. She consults a psychoanalyst (Barry Sullivan). In just four interviews he cures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...slowly set over the hills men sat at their posts waiting. Some scraped around among the remains of the rations, ate without tasting. Some lay down beside the wounded as if asleep, but their eyes were open wide. Our guns were fixed, but everyone felt that the German guns were moving to new positions all around us. 'It's gonna be a long night,' someone said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

...British soldiers crouched on the dark beaches, waited for ambushes, hunted for snipers. None was seen. German batteries four miles inland kept their peace. Of the few Germans in sight, four were drunks caught in a staff car, four others were found asleep. The few casualties were caused by mines. Wrote astonished Associated Pressman Don Whitehead: "It was so easy . . . American troops are standing with their mouths open and shaking their heads in utter amazement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Third Landing | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...said wearily: "I've been through a lot of battles. I've been wounded. But this is the toughest position I've ever had to take. Baldy's almost straight up. There's one trail but that's mined. . . ." Then he fell asleep. The next day his companies took Old Baldy and he said to TIME Correspondent Will Lang: ''My companies are thinned down, Will. I should have reinforcements before I make any more commitments. We're going to need some strength to hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ITALY: Holding Attack? | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...surfaced, slowly drew close to the yellow raft. Crewmen on the deck saw that the airman was sound asleep under his rubber sheet. From a distance of six feet, a subman bellowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Privacy in the Pacific | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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