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They also fought effectively. Hints of the headlong desperation of their smashing drives into Nazi lines even crept into German communiques. Berlin admitted that the Russians were on the edge of the Soviets' Pittsburgh -Kharkov -by saying that the city had been under heavy artillery fire. Bald Marshal Semion Timoshenko was within 20 miles of Dniepropetrovsk and its wrecked power dam, bulling his way ahead at the tip of a sharp salient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Spring is Coming | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...that seaborne vision was having heavy weather. Anti-British jokes had cropped up again, anti-British criticisms crept even into friendly editorials, were ridden hard by Anglophobes, spurred on by Axis propaganda. Many a U.S. citizen thought the closest U.S. ally a failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Winant Reports | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Szostakowicz," Columbia "Shastakowitch," and to the general public it means some of the best music to come out of Europe since Strauss and Sibelius said their last important says. He is already considered by many critics the White Hope of the symphony, although his name has not yet crept into the Widener stacks. The greatest factor in this meteoric rise was, of course, the great qualities of his music, but the Soviet Propaganda machine, through which he is new Russia's Composer Laureate and intellectual idol, also had a great deal to do with it. Back...

Author: By Robert W. Flint, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 3/5/1942 | See Source »

...than to reach across the table for a dry Martini. As he looked at his feet, perched lackadaisically on the desk in front of him, the thought crossed his mind that the major part of their existence had been spent in just such a position. A feeling of disgust crept over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 3/4/1942 | See Source »

...Fort Riley, Kans., Private Woodrow Kirkpatrick crept silently towards an imaginary enemy, crept smack against a real jack rabbit. The jack rabbit kicked him in the eye, sent him to the infirmary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

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