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...first time, the convention hall was really filled. Earlier, tickets had gone begging by the thousands. This time the chiselers were out in full force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Man They Nominated | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...Dutchmen stopping in Boston came out to Cambridge to see what they could see. They recorded that the College building was the salient feature of the landscape and when they approached they heard a great deal of noise. Entering it and going up stairs they found a blue haze of smoke through which could be dimly seen eight or ten students "smoking tobacco" as they put it. None of them knew any Latin, French, or Dutch, and the Dutchmen knew no English, so communication was difficult. However, they did learn that the students had no professor, there being no money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLY UNIVERSITY RULES SHOW PURITANICAL BENT | 3/17/1944 | See Source »

Late in the morning the sun tore the haze into milky shreds. With the visibility good, German machine guns, mortars, artillery opened up. The Germans sat behind their log-and-stone defenses and shouted in English: "Yank, give up." Or, "Major Brown says surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Incident on the Rapido | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Through a haze of charges, wishes, hopes and fears, a probability began to emerge. If events continue on their present course, the Poles in London may be too slow in bowing to broad Russian hints that they reorganize their Government, purge it of outspokenly anti-Russian influences. The British may find it impossible to chivvy their Polish allies into a change. The Russians may seek contact with whatever Polish elements the Red Army uncovers as it moves into Poland proper, proclaim these elements as the true Polish Government with or without the inclusion of the Communist Union of Polish Patriots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wish, Hope & Fear | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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