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General Fritz Gollwitzer, a corps commander taken alive last fortnight, was brought into a peasant hut for questioning. He and his staff raised their arms in the Nazi salute. The captors stared stonily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: The Face of Disaster | 7/17/1944 | See Source »

...flight is regulated by a timing device which tips the robot into a 60-degree dive. Oberth presumably abandoned his rocket design because the necessary weight of fuel made it unpractical. Since his jet-propelled bomb is dependent on air, it cannot soar above the stratosphere like a rocket hut must remain within range of enemy flak and planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: World War III Preview? | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved up with his wrangling colleagues of the press to watch the New Georgia show. Everywhere he went he was troubled by his name, which fitted him like an outsize hat. "Say, are there three of you guys from TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Look Homeward, Fighter | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Inside the crowded inner circle, ringed by huts, Anei Kur saw two comely Nubian maidens, his brides. Priests led him through the chanting throng to one of four royal huts before which stood the sacred stool, Kwom. On the stool stood the image of Nyakang. While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg. The priests removed the image and Anei Kur was ret. He retired to a royal hut with his two wives. His people gorged themselves on oxmeat and heady merissa, brewed from millet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUDAN: God's Last-born | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...first question heard in our quarters after we knock off work is, "What's the movie tonight?"and usually,the reply is: "It stinks." If we don't go to the movies, we just sit around and go "hut-crazy," so we really appreciated TIME giving us a swell plug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

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