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...forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well, you guys are goddam lucky; you've just crossed a minefield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alias Shelley | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...Stay at Home . . ." Led by MGM's Sam Eckman, nine member companies of the Motion Picture Association of America last month withdrew their display advertisements from Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard and Sunday Express. "We're not going to spend another goddam penny," an Express official was told, "until you change your critics." Chief target was the Evening Standard's Milton Shulman, who recently joshed the plot of Affair in Trinidad (which contains some schemers fiddling with the V-2 rocket): "Launched from bases in the Caribbean, [the V2] could destroy most of the major centers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Squeezing the Critics | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

What did ex-cop, ex-judge, ex-district attorney, ex-general, ex-mayor, now ex-Ambassador O'Dwyer have to say about this? Safely south of the border in Mexi co, last week, he cried: "If they're so goddam interested in Anastasia, then why the hell don't they prosecute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Nine Hundred & Forty Thieves | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

...combat score: eleven MIGs destroyed, two Sabres lost). Said one U.S. airman: "Last fall we were fighting them within 50 miles of this base. It's nearly 250 miles to the Yalu, and now there's not a single Commie pilot sitting across that goddam river who doesn't know that, if he sticks his nose across it, he's liable to get it shot off. First we drove them back to Pyongyang, then to the Chongchon. Since spring we've kept them penned between the Chongchon and the Yalu. Now any time we want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN KOREA: Best Shape Ever | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

...hair was black and he had "all his own teeth in his head, too-all except one. That'd been knocked out with a brick in a fight." Toward the end, he came to look at a newborn great-grandchild, "a puny boy weighing seven pounds." "Goddam it," he said, "the next generation of Fishers is goin' to be squirrels." His son, Thurber's grandfather, was hardly that. He showed his independence by having all his teeth capped with gold and, in his 60s, swallowing beach sand to "assist the integrity of the intestinal track...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sincerely Yours | 6/2/1952 | See Source »

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