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Confusion spread through their forces. A Messerschmitt pilot landed near Verona, found himself looking into the guns of a squad of U.S. soldiers and heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: ITALIAN FRONT: Collapse & Cleanup | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

This hodgepodge of Basic English, pid gin French and Southern drawl, punctuated by flyers' gestures, is the lingua franca in use at a U.S. Army school for French Army aviation cadets. Before they arrived at Hawthorne Field in Orangeburg, S.C., the French trainees, fresh from service abroad, were taught 40 hours of Basic English. Meanwhile the field's American instructors were given a short course in French. But when the two groups met in the pressing routine of learning to fly, rote-learned vocabularies vanished in the propwash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Free French | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Spencer Tracy is as good as their words, and Miss Hepburn, whose Bryn Mawr drawl and tailored walk sometimes get in her way, brings this sort of lady to life more convincingly than could anybody else in pictures. Lucille Ball handles her lowly wisecracks so well as to set up a new career for herself; and in spite of all this elegant competition, Ed Wynn's gifted son Keenan, as one of Barry's charming drunks, saunters away with the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Last Saturday's liberty found many Chase luminaries out basking in the fresh air and smoke light of the Stagier's dance. To mention a few, "Robel" Smith, string bean drawl expert, Bill Shuey, and Kirby "Sour" Pickie were in attendance. Tom Wilcox musta used his Virginia drawl to influence roommates Wood, of Florida, and Woodin, who once spent week ends in Iowa, into the Bradford College affair. A word to the wise all agree that Bradford is fairly loaded with prospective...talent...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

...evening in February 1942 Harper & Brothers' Board Chairman Henry Hoyns tuned in on We, the People, heard the easygoing drawl of a preacher recounting his experiences in the Ozark Mountains. The publishers promptly asked the parson to write his autobiography. Last week it was published. Walkin' Preacher of the Ozarks ($2.50) by the Rev. Guy Howard, crammed with colorful hillbilly tales, is a lively account of an itinerant minister's work in isolated Ozark hamlets of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Walkin Preacher | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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