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Produally the two long-awaited volley courts take shape in the drill field of Mellon Hall. A couple of Glass grasshoppers were seen out there this week batting an innocent bird to and fro--mostly the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATISTICACKLES | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

Jinnah, whom the Congress calls a British tool, last week stepped up his pip-squeaking with a self-contradicting attack on a speech by the Viceroy, Lord Linlithgow. The tired Viceroy had again claimed that "agreement cannot be reached between the conflicting interests of this country as fro who is to take over responsibilities which we are only too ready to transfer to Indian hands." First Jinnah called Linlithgow's speech "most inopportune and likely to shatter what little hope of settlement had been created," then he gave substance to Linlithgow's claim by ranting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Death and Factions | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...Johnny swept our gun to & fro and the wading Japs started crumpling down in the water. I was loading the gun. . . . Then Johnny got it in the face. I grabbed the gun and Lee laid Johnny aside as best as he could and started feeding it. ... The Japs kept sending groups of men, 35 to 50, charging down into the water while bullets whistled all around us. ... I could hear my teeth grind together as I swept my gunfire across group after group. . . . Diamond was working furiously when they got him in the arm. He fell across my legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: In a Solomons' Gun Nest | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...staunchest allies, thoughts which might mold the future are being black-penciled by the hand of complacency. Two nights ago, Henry A Wallace spoke courageously and objectively to a group of Americans, correlating the aims of Soviet Russia with the basic principles of democracy we have bruited abroad fro decades. But Walface's post-war implications will be discounted by the majority of the American people, only partially because of the typical attitude of the press towards any speech by any Vice-President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Pearl is Cast | 11/10/1942 | See Source »

They sang even on the gallows. "The tones seemed somewhat discordant and yet there was harmony in it. Their bodies swayed to and fro and their every limb seemed to be keeping time. The drop trembled and shook as if all were dancing. The most touching scene on the drop was their attempts to grasp each other's hands, fettered as they were. . . . Three and four in a row were hand in hand swaying up and down with the rise and fall of their voices. One old man reached out on each side but could not grasp a hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Necktie Party | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

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