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...Germans looked across their lines and grew alarmed at what they saw. Their radio bleated that General Dwight D. Eisenhower' was making "frantic preparations" for a new drive, "with no effort to keep it a secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, WESTERN FRONT: Storm Clouds Gather | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...thick a man could hardly see ten feet. But in their foxholes north of Bastogne the paratroopers heard Germans talking in the woods ahead. They also heard snapping branches and clanking treads. The forward artillery observer sent a frantic call to the rear: "Serenade, serenade-request all additional artillery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Patient Bookkeeper | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...limber-faced Danny Kaye was nevertheless an X quantity as a disembodied voice. An album of records by him had been a sellout, but even his most ardent fans thought of him as a wild-eyed, sharp-nosed, mile-a-minute mugger who tore himself apart with frantic pantomime. Last week he proved he could be funny in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mile-a-Minute Mugger | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...London, last week, one of the strangest of living politicians, Count Michael Karolyi, Tolstoyan, Socialist and Hungarian nobleman, was closely noting his country's confused and frantic efforts to break with Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Nightmare | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...minutes, returned to find him gone. They spotted him running down the street, gave chase. After two and a half blocks a pedestrian, thinking the Vice President a fugitive, grabbed him. The police guard was doubled, but Wallace soon started running again, easily beat his four frantic, panting guards on a five-block race down crowded Broadway to the Hotel Astor. Explained Wallace: "I just had to get some exercise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Change of Station | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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