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Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: As In Normandy . . . | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

It is with a sense of comfort even religion cannot afford that I read in TIME (May 15) the fine article on "handsome, patrician Joseph Clark Grew." For so long you have described and accented the personal defects of politicians, statesmen, actors & actresses, and other persons of prominence as "bowlegged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

In a trice he reached his goal, then self-satisfied, he pedaled, majestically bowlegged astride his velocipede, through the sacred Yard. Bliss, thought he, but a big man in a black suit said no, it was all the same, tricycles, bicycles, so long you got your health. But Albie still...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tricycles Aren't Bicycles? Go Tell It to a Yard Cop | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

Under the Ferns. Near Homalin the party left their rafts and began the hike which was to take them to the Chindwin River and over the harsh border mountains to India. The homespun, bowlegged general slogged along with his eye obstinately on his watch, counting out 105 steps to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Long Hike | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

The Javanese natives, scorned, beaten, cooperated in some instances with the Japs. But most of them turned the Jap propaganda back on their bowlegged conquerors. They made up their own slogans, which they passed around by word of mouth. One sample: Asia Raya, Nippon Kaya, Asia Paya, which means: in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEWARE, THERE IS AMERICA | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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