Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alexander has been a pilot himself for more than 20 years now -rose to be Major in the 110th Observation Squadron, National Guard. But Alexander is a journalist first and a flyer second. He worked 15 years with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, before he came to TIME (he applied for his job here by flying an Army plane into New York in the morning, meeting TIME's editor at two o'clock, flying back to St. Louis that night...
...came dispatch orders for his chief Pay Clerk with the four hash marks to be detached immediately... But after all, his specimens were still there. Net two cans came up two points abaft the beam, both of which wanted two certified money lists taken care of ... While he was delving into his specimens ... Along came a detachment of marines who hadn't been paid for six months ... He tole them to get in line ... Things certainly were picking up ... Next he was notified there were three dead bodies below with their transfer pay accounts. Next came three wives who claimed...
Five Graves to Cairo (Paramount) is a somewhat belated dispatch from the Hollywood militarists on Rommel's North African campaign. Paramount's stand-in for the Nazi Desert Fox is the bald and brutal veteran, Erich von Stroheim. Pitted against his terrorism is the youthful team of Franchot Tone and Anne Baxter. United, the wits of these two turn the entire tide of battle...
...correspondent of the London Daily Express, wrote that he got the description from an unnamed participant in recent conferences to which the Führer had summoned four satellites (King Boris of Bulgaria, Admiral Nicholas Horthy of Hungary, Marshal Ion Antonescu of Rumania and Croat Puppet Ante Pavelich). The dispatch added...
...face, Salter's dispatch was one more item in the flood of secondhand reports from Ankara and Istanbul, where anything can be heard and very little can be believed. But for whatever it was worth, it simply recited a series of untenable hopes. It constituted one more bit of evidence that Adolf Hitler cannot avoid catastrophe. He can only strive to postpone...