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Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...
entry into World War I by singing The Star-Spangled Banner in faultless English...
Ehrenburg is not a Communist Party member, but is nonetheless one of the Soviet Union's best-paid, most honored writers-winner of a Stalin prize, the Red Banner of Labor, and, last week, the Order of Lenin, Russia's top civilian honor. Incredibly prolific, he writes pamphlets, radio broadcasts, recently published a volume of lyric verse. His only rival in popularity is stocky Mikhail Sholokhov, 39, author of And Quiet Flows the Don (TIME, July 2, 1934) and The Don Flows Home to the Sea (TIME, Aug. 4, 1941). Pravda has been serializing his new epic They...
...steps of the White House at the head of his patrol. He entered between mighty pillars into a large half-lit vestibule. A portrait of George Washington hung on the wall. A broad marble staircase led to the upper floors. On each landing hung a gigantic star-spangled banner. Then suddenly he stood in front of a glass door. The President's study! But . . . chairs were flung about . . . papers were strewn across the floor. . . . How quiet...
...amazing column of cars in the avenue . . . thousands of people . . . shouting something about a 'swindler' who was caught trying to take off-in his plane. It must be the man he was looking for. It was. On a kind of tumbril ... sat President Roosevelt. A gigantic banner over his head read 'This man drove us to the shambles'. . . . Cameras whirred, the crowds pointed their fingers and sang derisory songs. Ash trays from the offices were emptied on the head of the President. America had awakened...