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...swirling fog held London in a clammy clasp last week, muffling its powerful pulsebeat to a mere mark-time. The air tasted vaguely sulphurous and had the faintest odor of wet ashes...
...reported missing in action. A year later, with no word to the contrary received, he was "presumed lost in action." For his outstanding bravery in action, he received, posthumously, the Navy Cross and the Purple Heart Medal. He was also entitled to the American Defense Service Medal, the Fleet Clasp, and the Asiatic-Pacific Area Campaign Ribbon. In his honor, the government launched the destroyer USS Mannert L. Abele on April...
...this page (as far as TIME knows, the first published) was taken with radioactive materials formed by the explosion of an atomic bomb. It shows a woman's rayon purse stuffed with feminine necessaries: keys, coins, a bobby pin and a bottle of nail polish. The metal clasp is clearly visible. The semi-transparent oblong below is a package of chewing gum. The picture was made by placing the purse on a sheet of ordinary photographic film. On top of the purse were placed pieces of twisted steel and several bits of fused earth from the site...
...Follow the Girls," Dave Wolper's new musical comedy at the Shubert Theatre, has all the trimmings of a good show; yet viewed a an entity it hardly approaches the rare standard of entertainment perfection. A slap-happy public will probably clasp "Follow the Girls" to its collective breast and acclaim it as "grand entertainment...
...devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might have found him hard to locate, for he often could not locate himself: his absentmindedness was prodigious. He was sometimes obliged to buy a copy of his own weekly (G.K.'s) to find the address of his office. "Am in Market Harborough," he once...