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...potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: Spring Planting | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...night this week Associated Press Photographer Herbert White was sound asleep on the little Dutch island of Aruba, just off the Venezuelan Coast. At 1:30 a.m. an explosion bowled him out of bed. Photographer White's routine assignment, covering a routine inspection trip by the U.S. Army's Lieut. General Frank Andrews, had turned into an eyewitness view of the first Axis shells to land on the soil of the Americas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Shells at Aruba | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

...years the doctors have told me that it was essential that I should consume at least a quart of milk daily, while my brain has informed me that it was of primary importance for me to have coffee to prevent me from falling asleep in the midst of the ever important intellectual conversations which flourish at the end of all House meals. Now I am forced to dispense with at least one of these, and I find it impossible to determine which. The result is that for days I have had nothing to drink; I am completely asleep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/14/1942 | See Source »

...Philadelphia Opera lately made its first full-dress tour, to Boston. The Boston Herald gasped at how "Philadelphia (which we always understood was sounder to asleep collar on its this feet opera than company. Boston) ..." Next managed season, under management of smart Show man Sol Hurok, the Philadelphians will tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera with Harmonica | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...sleeping accommodations on T.W.A.'s Flight 3, due shortly on its way to Los Angeles. Winkler wanted to go to a hotel, sleep, take a train. Miss Lombard vetoed the idea, saying "I'll curl up and take a pill and pff I'll be asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: End of a Mission | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

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