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...Good-humored Toney Penna, who tensed up on one hole and asked the gallery to start talking because "things are too darn quiet." The gallery whooped it up and Penna missed a 10 ft. putt. He then went on a practice green and canned 96 in succession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Golf Comes Back | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...very well, Churchill's talking about well-earned repose after work, but there are things a bloke has to do in the meantime. And even at home-lumme, I like that word for the way I live-there are letters to write and socks to wash or darn, and you can't do anything really, what with cocking your ear and being ready to streak for the Anderson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ENGLAND: The Blitz and One Man | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...sure that I speak for thousands of American girls when I say that the English women are welcome to Private Stevens and any other Americans who have that same attitude. Let them darn his socks, wash his clothes and share their limited rations with him-we'll put our energy into trying to help those boys over there who feel that our country and the American girls are worth fighting for and coming home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...Someday when Pfc. John M. Stevens darn near fractures a vertebra hurrying down the gangplank onto Manhattan we'll be there to plant a nice lipstickish American kiss on his pouty lips. Cheerio, Johnnie, we'll be seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...indeed, the girls back home should worry, or else learn to ... darn socks or something else besides play bridge and sip cocktails all afternoon. The English say we spoil our women. After seeing and going out with a number of both I'm convinced we certainly do. My advice to any bewildered bachelor back home: send to England for a wife. The initial investment may be large but she will save you two thousand bucks a year in upkeep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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