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...what a headache that first issue was! The machine to fold the Ponies to fit in a letter envelope was delayed at sea and arrived 36 hours late, so all the copies had to be folded by hand. Our postage meter didn't show up in time either-so all the envelopes likewise had to be sealed and stamped by hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...much that the Japanese troops had managed to fight, by their own peculiar brand of military osmosis, from the jungles of Burma onto the Manipur plain of India. It was that British troops seemed unable to fold them up now that they were on Indian soil. So, in spite of New Delhi assurances, the spring-legged little invaders seemed a greater threat every day to the Bengal-Assam railway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Confidence on the Arakan Front | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

With these impudent lines, neatly punctuated by music, upstart radio last week poked Hollywood in the nose. The sock was sharply delivered by U.S. radio's foremost writer-producer-innovator, Norman Corwin, who deserted radio eight months ago for the alabaster mines of Hollywood. Now back in the fold (CBS, 10 p.m. Tues., E.W.T.) with his salary doubled ($500 weekly), Corwin, who is responsible for much of U.S. radio's adult fare (Words Without Music, We Hold These Truths, My Client Curley, An American in England, The Odyssey of Runyon Jones), was off on a fresh 26-program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Heckled | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...based on this combination, there was a determination to practice the sectless preachments and the teachings of Jesus Christ, who was the first true gentleman of recorded history and the greatest gentleman that ever lived, I might not have joined the fold, but certainly I'd have stood on the side lines and cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 20, 1944 | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Sample test question: "There are four embryonic membranes in vertebrates-the yoke sac, the allantois, the amnion and the chlorion. The amnion and chlorion are formed by a fold of the somatopleure. . . . " Problem: to locate these on a diagram...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Boy & Girl Scientists | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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