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Latest of the fast-growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received a bottle of wine for his efforts...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/5/1944 | See Source »

...afternoon to the apartment, six blocks away, of an old friend from his days at Lwow University. There Karski had belonged to an association that lectured to the peasants on literature, history, hygiene. The peasants were mildly interested in Karski's lectures. But they loved the intense, gifted, frail young high-school student who went with him and played the violin after his talk. This was Dziepatowski. He was now an executioner for the underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impersonal Adventure | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Painfully shy, he shunned school athletics for solitary quail-shooting in the woods, sprouted too rapidly to a frail and awkward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Mother's Boy | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Last week Mrs. Mills heard startling news about frail Jimmy: in Italy, 21-year-old Private James H. Mills of the infantry had won the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during his first encounter with the enemy. Last May, near Cisterna de Littoria, he had knocked out two Nazi machine-gun nests singlehanded by killing four Germans (with five shots) and capturing seven more. Then he had repeatedly set himself up as a decoy target while his platoon surrounded an enemy strong point and captured 22 prisoners without suffering a casualty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MEDALS: Mother's Boy | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...stuff had gone flashing through those frail wooden walls like buckshot through a berry crate. Some of it had even sliced through the walls and partitions and come out on the far side. The mosquito net above my bed was ripped in a dozen places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On Leyte | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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