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Today the food is plain and most of the well-sprung limousines are up on blocks. Rouge and a touch of the eyebrow pencil help to keep the officers looking smart, but in their hearts they know that soon they will have to fight or run away. The Russians are over the Prut; the end of an era cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Perfume and Pastry | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...President paused, cocked an eyebrow at the reporters crowded around his desk. Some of you people, he interpolated, are wandering around asking bellhops if we have a foreign policy. Well, we have. Some of you don't seem to know it, but we actually have and it's right here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: No Plans | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Lifted Eyebrows. "Jumbo" Wilson's appointment to the job late in December had caused some eyebrow-lifting in British military circles. His most recent campaign as Middle East commander, the attack on the Aegean Islands of Cos, Samos and Leros had been a fiasco. Troops had been pushed within easy reach of German land-based air power; communications were so badly organized that landing parties had trouble contacting headquarters at Cairo 500 miles away; equipment was rusty and inadequate. Some wit rose to the occasion by dubbing Jumbo "The Wizard of Cos." Another commented that the Russians shoot generals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Defender of Empire | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Asked in what respect she differs from other Hollywood producers, Joan Harrison, 34, tilts one blonde eyebrow, grins, and replies, "I use my sex.;' When, against Universal's better judgment, she became a Universal producer, the studio sent around a photographer to immortalize the event. "Well," snapped Miss Harrison, "do you want some leg art?" (see cut). Besides using a pair of ah-inspiring legs, she also uses a mind trained at the Sorbonne, at Oxford, and by England's shrewdest director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

When mild-looking Victor Krulak was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1934 he was the smallest man in his class. He had a long Milquetoast nose, soft reddish hair, one constantly surprised eyebrow, and a solid reputation for whimsical understatement. Inevitably, he was called "The Brute." Last week, as a lieutenant colonel of the Marines, back from a brush with the Japs on Choiseul Island, The Brute was in line for a Navy Cross. His Marine paratroopers had harried and jabbed the Jap for a week, killed at least 144, wounded uncounted others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: The Brute & Co. | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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