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Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SKIES: Fortunes of War | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Soybean sprouts. Grown indoors in a flower pot or jar, they can be raised the year round from dried field soybeans, sprout in five days or less, can be cooked as quickly as a pork chop, have several times as much vitamin B complex as the bean itself, rival tomatoes in vitamin C. A crisp, tasty dish, they have been a staple of the Chinese diet for centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down with Meat | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...called the case "... a bizarre plot. ... It will sound like storybook reading, it is so fantastic." Until the four are put on trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Story Book Reading | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Arresting. In Ephrata, Wash., police arrested for drunkenness one Reptile Red DeHorn Jersey Bull. In Danbury, Conn., arrested for the same reason was a man who was trying to hide a watermelon under his shirt but having some difficulty, because he was already loaded with a jar of cheese spread, several ears of corn, two jars of skin lotion, some parts for an automobile brake, a can of shoe polish, a dill pickle, and a rearview mirror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...orgy of looting. They slapped and clawed each other for owner ship of valuable and valueless things. One man clutched enough boxes of toothpicks to pick his teeth for life. Another stacked a dozen straw hats on his head. A woman juggled seven umbrellas. Two others squabbled over a jar of tomatoes, then dropped the jar as a small boy sprayed them, with a hairdresser's lotion. From the balcony of one store the looters tossed goods to carts lined up below. One driver tried to make off with a packet of under wear, used his fists in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SICILY: Aftermath | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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