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Natives helped him. One supplied him with rice and other food in his hideaways. He had a small lens which he used as a sunglass to light fires. He learned to squeeze the oil of coconuts and use it for cooking fuel. He shaved once a week, hus banding a scanty supply of razor blades. After a while "they almost pulled my face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Earlier, Yenya's disconsolate widow al most wrecks the plot. Becoming suspicious of Yuranosuke's wily pretense of inactivity, she decides to avenge her hus band herself; but her two attempts to kill Moronao fail. According to the Muenchner Neueste Nachrichten, the knowledge that, had she succeeded, 47 lives would have been saved, represents "a peak of tragic irony." The same newspaper found much else to praise. Especially fetching was Playwright Langenbeck's introduction of "humorous contrast" into his tragic scenes. For example: in the scene where Yuranosuke outlines the plan of vengeance to the Ronin, this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Munich, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

When she is not on tour, Lucile Turner lives with her husband on a 600-acre farm at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains just outside Lynchburg. There her hus band has some 150 head of pedigreed cattle. The Turners have three children -an Army captain, a boy about to join the Marines, a daughter just graduated from Stephens College, Columbia, Mo. As a war mother, Lucile Turner has recently written several war songs ( We Are Ready, When I Heard the News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lucile Turner's Blues | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

Having put this point across the chic blonde whose personal appearance belies her cranial capacity leaned back and lit her fourth cigarrette. She explained that she would not be able to come up to Harvard to speak in support of the Hoover Plan because she and her hus-husband. "Time"-publisher Henry Luce, were leaving the following week for Chung-king...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ClareBoothe Demands Food For Five Small Democracies For Five Small Democracies | 5/16/1941 | See Source »

Since three gendarmes still remained besieged, the Nazis dragged the wife of one through the streets by a rope binding her wrists, ordered her to beg her hus band to come out, which she did. Few minutes later a bus load of gendarmes drove up, one was instantly killed in the bus by a Nazi's shot, another was killed as he dismounted. The Nazis scattered as the gendarmes opened fire and after ward the commander of the relieving force said, "The gendarme's wife who was tied up with this rope was lying on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sons of Death | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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