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Infantrymen were running and crouching, circling around a large mound. Three or four mounted the grassy parapet and jumped down on the other side. There was a burst of fire, and another, as grenades went off. In the foreground a soldier wearing glasses and holding an unlit cigaret between his lips sprang from the concealing greenery and ran at half speed for about ten yards to a palm tree. He landed behind this tree with his feet forward in a sitting position and his head turned mechanically to look back over the field. After two or three seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: MOP-UP ON KWAJALEIN | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Last week a cat slipped out of the bag in 176 U.S., South American and Canadian newspaper offices: "Captain Midi," the spy currently in the foreground of boyish Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates, will soon be revealed as a masquerading woman. The cat-looser: a "profile" of Caniff in The New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press, Jan. 17, 1944 | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Moscow Touch | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

Honeymoon's End. This statement by the U.S. Oil Boss was still freshly inked in the current issue of the American Magazine when the whole problem of what the U.S. should do about oil came sharply into the foreground. The gist of a special report on the all-important subject, made by Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee of 13 U.S. oil executives and two British representatives, leaked out, via the New York Times. Then Honest Harold released the full text, which he had not yet read. With a bang, the honeymoon between Ickes and the oilmen was over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: In Search of a Policy | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Painter Varda also includes just enough of some subsidiary color in each collage to "perfume or accent" the dominant color. "This perfume," says Varda, "makes the painting sing." Sometimes he gets effects of transparency by dabbing nuances of background color on foreground subjects. As long as the effect is stimulating and gay, Varda says: Damn the blotches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Imperfectionist | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

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