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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other fingers of the Allied hand probed directly toward Mandalay. The British resumed their two-year-old drive on Akyab through Arakan, made faster progress. The stagnation in Burma was ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Marauders to Mars | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...away the outstanding performer of the week was lithe, 6-ft. 3½-in. Arnold Ferrin, lone regular left from Utah's 1944 National Collegiate Championship team. Faster, more graceful than ever (see cut), he put on a one-man show that just missed upsetting St. John's, strongest of the metropolitan New York teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fluid Scramble | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...from fast & furious to breathless & breakneck. To meet spectators' demand for action, the coaches (who now rate basketmaking 4-to-1 over defensive play) have had to develop a pack of new tricks as well as refine the old standbys. As a result, the game is not only faster but a whole lot more complicated than it was a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fluid Scramble | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

Thought from Orthodoxy. A paddler said: "D'yer think hell will be as hot as this?" The sergeant snarled: "You'll be afindin' out mighty quick if you don't get a move on." We paddled a little faster and crouched a little lower-and I wished I'd left my sheepskin coat behind, for the heat from the flamethrowers and the burning banks and the patches of burning water were making me uncomfortable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...lavish spender, Rose is also a tough bargainer. "Only a sucker," he once remarked of picture-buying, "pays the price asked." Accused of being "slow with a buck," Rose retorted: "Sure, but do you know anybody who is faster with a hundred thousand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Dec. 18, 1944 | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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