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...themselves exclusively to the R.A.F. But recently Sergeant Gunner Z. E. White of Dallas, Tex. had the guns on "Big Punk," his Flying Fortress, jam just as he got a German Focke-Wulf 190 in his sights over the North Sea. When White reported what had happened, Pilot Oscar Coen, one of the three original members of the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, nodded his head sagely. A noted gremlinologist, Coen knew then that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained properly to the U.S. public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: It's Them | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...ducks. Even if inventories are roof-top high, they expect to sell out long before any post-war slump catches them. But not all retailers are so cocky: giant Montgomery Ward has cautiously set up a $2,000,000 reserve for "price declines." And from visiting British Storeman Victor Coen came another caution note: "Those British retailers who made heavy advance purchases . . . were sadly disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inventory Boom | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

...Borjesson, the Italian Grazia (the war's first casualty under Mussolini's flag). This free floating peril in the North Sea for neutrals as well as combatants, had an immediate effect on Dutch shipping. At Lisbon 1,000 passengers, aboard the liners Oranje, Jan Pieterszoon Coen and Johan De Witt, disembarked to continue their journeys by other means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: In-Fighting | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...into diplomacy) and the exclusive Rot-Weiss Club as a student of tennis. He was soon spending most of the money that came from Oelber on lessons with famed Professional Robert Kleinschroth. Two years later, after he had progressed to the point of beating Tilden-trained Wilbur Coen Jr., he got his father's permission to marry his childhood friend, dark, vivacious Baroness Lisa von Dobeneck, and to abandon his studies in favor of a career in tennis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champions at Forest Hills | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup, Aug. 1, 1932 | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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