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"There is no explaining wartime reading tastes," cabled TIME Correspondent William Gray from Manila. "Tonight I climbed to an artillery observation post beside the Pasig River overlooking the besieged Intramuros. Beyond its far wall the Manila Hotel's north wing was burning. Two hundred yards across the river a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: G.I. | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

Back in the days of Tyre and Nineveh, in ancient Rome and more ancient Greece, the waiters in the early versions of the Stork Club presented checks face down to the customers, as a matter of courtesy and tact. The custom has held good down through the ages, with waiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 4, 1944 | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

This year conditioning was supervised by a former Powers model, Ruth Tiffany, who runs a Chicago charm studio. Assisted by the League's public-relations director, Gertrude Hendricks, who once taught the construction of form-fit corsets, she cajoled some 120 candidates through a fort night of spring training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball, Maestro, Please | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

Vivien Kellems, Connecticut cable-grip manufacturess, would-be striker against Federal income taxes (TIME, Jan. 31) wrote to Buenos Aires' Count Frederick von Zedlitz in 1943 (according to Washington's solemn-faced Democratic Representative John Main Coffee), addressed him as "My Darling Boy," told him she had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Strikers | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Navy men who have forgiven him for his breaches of the best Annapolis etiquette (i.e., public criticism of command) could take pride in his newest promotion. Annapolis was doing well in England.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: Two-Starred Doghouse | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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