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...Gongs for Glory. Result was a qualified victory, but unqualified glory for U.S. airmen. Even the decoration-chary Navy gave out plenty of medals. To date 114 officers and men of Patwing Four have "got the gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: West from Dutch Harbor | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

...considers her the deftest of all living flowerpot and gong whackers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Percussionist | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...Washington's tumult nobody had heard the gong. So last week, before a joint session of House Military and Naval Affairs subcommittees, blunt Bill Jeffers roared again that Army & Navy factory expediters were "loafers" who made off with materials he could have used better. An audience of top military men looked on in angry silence. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Under Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal roared back at the Czar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rubber: The Last Word | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

...clang of a gong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rejoycings | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Theorist. In The Bronx, Sing Gong was arrested for trying to rob a Chinese laundry by waving a .38-caliber cartridge, demanding money, threatening that otherwise he would find a gun somewhere, put the bullet in it, come back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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