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...learned in his year in Alaska, carefully analyzed all the reports of what went wrong in Attu, then wrote his handbook. Some conclusions: Warriors' Habits. "For some reason it seems that mud and water and war always go together, so since the days of the Axe, stone, M I, the doughfoot has always had a rough time with his wet feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Advice to Warriors | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

This time he tried scooters. We don't know what happened, but when last seen the little rebel was still jouncing along, but nobody saw him get the axe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scooters Here, Shorts There, He's Back Again, By Golly | 8/13/1943 | See Source »

Hard hit by the edict was M. Muchado Osborne, who threw up the sponge last night in eminently respectable 14 Plympton Street. Only other character available for comment after the axe had fallen was Henry S. Middendorf '45, of Baltimore and Eliot House. Said he, "No comment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Building Condemned by Board of Health Here | 4/1/1943 | See Source »

...magazine is not founded to promulgate prejudices, liberal or conservative. The magazine is one of news, not argument, and verges on the controversial only where it is necessary to point out what that news means. 'To keep men well-informed' -that, first and last, is the only axe this magazine has to grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...deepened. The world TIME reports in 1943 is a world whose knaves and good men, fools and heroes play their parts on a stage whose backdrop is literally life-and-death. In reporting this grave new world TIME still hews to its original line: we have not changed our axe but sharpened it. With 55 writers, 58 researchers, 22 branch offices and 201 correspondents all over the world, obviously we should be able to do a much better job for you than our four full-time editors and their ten part-time assistants could hope to do back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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