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Down the Champs Elysees. From the Normandy front the Germans shipped 2,000 U.S. and British prisoners to Paris, marched them through the city for Paris to see. Last week the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung and other big German newspapers published two photographs. One showed a buxom Parisienne spitting in a British prisoner's face. Said the caption: "This Parisian lady could not be prevented from showing her disgust by spitting in the Englishman's face." The other picture showed a G.I. ducking a blow at his face delivered by a bespectacled bystander. Said the caption: "The population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Gauntlet of Hate | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Bearded, greying, Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi Pasha grieved to see his subjects forego the joys of marriage because the price of wives had soared. The most diligent young Sudanese could not hope to save the $400 a buxom maiden's parents asked; $100 brides were never of much account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: Ceiling on Wives | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...county attorney. He also heard that the mayor was in on the take, and warned him: "I'm not interested in being a conquering hero around here, but everybody is beginning to think you're a crook." Finally Hirst set a trap. He got the buxom Negro madam of the "Black and Tan Club" to insist on paying off to the mayor and police chief in person. Hirst's men watched through a peephole, recorded the transaction on a dictograph. Last week Attorney Hirst got his convictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Dewey | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Cavalier is more of a side dish-17 rollicking, frivolous stories (mostly reprinted from the Satevepost and other magazines) crammed with action and built around romance as soft as a two-minute egg. Readers who like their romance that way will like Author Perry's staggering galaxy of buxom, cherry-cheeked girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bunions in the Bayous | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...wrote short stories secretly through her college years at St. Louis' Washington University, got 21 rejection slips from one magazine. (When she became editor of her college paper she printed all 21 rejected stories.) In 1910, 20-year-old, buxom, self-confident Fannie left for Manhattan to do graduate work in Anglo-Saxon at Columbia University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 22 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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