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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannibal Feast. At least two aviators were beheaded publicly by Matoba's own 308th Battalion, to buoy the troops' morale. In each case, the liver was cut from the still-warm bodies, delivered to Matoba's cook, cut into strips and served in sukiyaki. At one gay party, where the cannibal dish was washed down with sake, Tachibana was Matoba's guest. That night, during a U.S. air attack, Matoba boasted that enemy bombs could not hurt him because he had eaten the enemy's flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Unthinkable Crime | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...cannot conjure up hotel rooms, orchestra seats at the theater, etc. Lately, her card index file of New York City, which includes the subhead "Girls with Problems," has come to the attention of one of the world's older and one of its newer institutions. Good old Thomas Cook & Son, travel agents extraordinary, have examined it as a prelude to setting up a similar guide to London, and the United Nations has already adopted it for its guide to New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 9, 1946 | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...chivvy him into an alley and work him back & forth like a rockinghorse, one hammering at his solar plexus, the other at his kidneys. And he has hardly got his breath back when he has to watch a huge criminal (Fred Steele) force a small damp grey one (Elisha Cook Jr.) to drink a glass of poison. After that it is only a question of time before the big man has laid out Marlowe with a fistful of small auto parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 26, 1946 | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Hall's crew-Stroke, H. Hall; 7, G. Hall; 6, Cook; 5, Putnam; 4, Harrington; 3, McLaughlin; 2, A. Hall, bow, Rackemann; coxwain, Paul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hall's Crew Wins Wednesday In Race for Varsity Oarsmen | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

...from the missions of the Moravian Brethren who came out from Germany to Christianize the Eskimos in 1764. Like the whites, the Eskimos are content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Floating Poll | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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