Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Should I happen to become a Japanese prisoner of war it might be a bit difficult proving I was a "noncombatant" after TIME (Nov. 16) has me dragging a .45 around Guadalcanal...
Millions of loyal radio fans will miss them. So will Henry Ford, who writes fan letters, J. Edgar Hoover, James Thurber, Vincent Astor, and countless others whose addiction approaches that of the late Arthur Brisbane, who sometimes telephoned breathlessly after the broadcast to find out what would happen in the next episode...
...knew it would happen. After all you can't blame a dictator like Roosevelt for getting a bit hot under the collar when a paper like TIME picked Joseph Stalin as the most outstanding personality of 1942. So Roosevelt ordered his troops to arrest 53 [American] newspaper and magazine editors. . . . Shades of the Gestapo. Fifty-three editors in one swoosh...
Most important of all, Veronika believed that 1943 would bring victory and peace. The heat would be turned on, the pechka would disappear, the old man would come home, Grusha would go back to school. What else would happen Veronika did not know, nor did she much care. That was enough to think about...
...know Just what can happen to our sort...