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...driving from Pensacola to Jacksonville, Fla. when dusk halted me in the lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide lectures, and fair weather performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the vicarage lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Emett of Punch | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Flash! Bizmark had a bath last Sunday. Bill Brown has brand new shoes. That's all the news I could get out of Company IV. Won't nobody help...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

Actually, Baruch now puts in few 16-hour days. Always fond of sleep, he likes better than ever to go to bed early, has an air-conditioning unit in his bedroom to help him drop off. When he has trouble going to sleep he takes a bath, as cold as he can stand it. In the mornings, he some times lolls in striped pajamas and red bathrobe as late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: U.S. At War, Jun. 28, 1943 | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...Blimpish superiors that the younger generation is fed up with playing old-fashioned war games. The young officer's orders are to begin the war at midnight, but he and his men start at 6 p.m., rush to London and capture the Home Guard General in a Turkish bath. The young officer looks down on the towel wrapped about Blimp's droopy paunch and says: "Well, all I can say, Sir, is that when Napoleon said an army marches on its stomach. . . ." From his full, majestic, nude height Blimp replies: "Let me tell you that in 40 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gad, Sir, He Had To Die | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

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