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...Cocoanut Grove patrons pushed and shoved, fell and were trampled. Joyce Spector was knocked under a table, crawled on hands & knees, somehow was pushed through an open doorway into the street. A chorus boy herded a dozen people downstairs into a refrigerator. A few men & women crawled out windows; a few escaped by knocking out a glass brick wall. But most of them, including Bridegroom John O'Neil, were trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Boston's Worst | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...wounded man down to the beach and I lost him. He got hit and died on the last boat going back to England. I worked on alone from 8 to 11 o'clock. Jeeze, Stew and I got a couple of Germans that were waiting in a doorway with grenades for some of our guys who were bringing down a batch of prisoners. Stew let one have it with his rifle and I plastered the other with my tommy gun. Same old Jerry, he don't fight so good when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: NOTHING TO SPEAK OF | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...then he noted a History One syllabus under the youth's arm. "These Freshmen are getting younger and younger each term," he exclaimed. The incident quickly slipped from his mind as he headed towards Mass. Hall, and then turned in between Hollis and Harvard. As he passed the doorway of Holden Chapel, with its white and black sign proclaiming the transformation to a "U.S. Navy Storeroom," he looked up to note half a dozen tots and their mamas mounting the steps of PBH. "These freshmen are really getting young," he commented to himself, in search of an inward chuckle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 10/21/1942 | See Source »

Rescue. In Cleveland, Mrs. John Gold scrambled out the window of her apartment's laundry room, summoned police, who freed four other women trapped in the basement by a belligerent rat occupying the doorway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...career diplomat (his wife knitted socks with a revolver at her side while he dug air-raid shelters in Addis Ababa), trouble-wise Envoy Engert knows the Axis technique of penetration and disruption. He also knows that Afghanistan's 245,000-square-mile "kingdom of tumult" is the doorway through which all the land armies of history have fought their way to the riches of India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Darius to Engert | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

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