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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such tactical baubles; it was swooping out northwest and northeast at top speed. Already it had secured for its supply establishments a good portion of the Riviera land of pink oleander, grassy seaside terraces, garden walls, pastel villas, lush shrubbery, handsome estates, hyacinths, white beaches and mountain roads that hang like cornices over the cliffs and sea. Already Allied fighter planes were fly ing from southern France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Tactician's Dream | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...Beavers, after downing Bob Stewart's Cardinals, continued through the week undefeated and retained top ranking. Bud Bloom's Browns, after dropping the opener, have won three straight and are currently the hottest team in the league. Tony Hoekstra, Brownies' mainstay, out pitched the Tigers' Keith Miller to hang up the only shutout of the season. Then Tony checked the Cards, 8-4, on Friday...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/22/1944 | See Source »

...Juniors: Look at this column on Friday for complete details on the past Leave. Between trips to Canada, marriages, home-comings and the coming election there will be a lot of news to be spilled. So hang on, Mates, and don't let that bar weigh you down...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T.x. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 7/18/1944 | See Source »

...element in the Party that mattered most was Candidate Tom Dewey. He came into a position almost unique in U.S. political history-he owed none of the political debts that usually hang on a candidate's neck like so many albatrosses (e.g., the 1932 Roosevelt debt to Messrs. John Garner and William McAdoo for wrecking Al Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Dewey Takes Over | 7/3/1944 | See Source »

Fallen Saints. "The first village we came to, St. Laurent, was like the curate's egg-good in spots. There were pleasant little stone houses with courtyards where birds hang in the trees, black and white hens guiding their chicks about and one belated hen setting on a manure pile hatching her brood. With American efficiency we had already supplied these householders with French tricolors to fly and with wall placards reading 'Private Property-Off Limits to Troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Liberated | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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