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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Killing Susy. Editor Webster's picture of "Uncle Sam" begins with such early lore as the fun Twain had in letters to his mother. She wrote in a maternal hurry and let her mistakes go uncorrected. Thus when she meant to write, "Kiss Susy [Twain's daughter] for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Twain at His Worst | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

British officers near Kohima on India's frontier were politely baffled by the two Americans. Their three-day passes checked perfectly; they were in the front-line area legally enough. But they made the most amazing request. Bored with running railroads back of the line, they insisted that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Pause that Refreshes | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

Eddie Corstorphine, Scottish-born Presbyterian, got a conscientious objector's discharge from the Canadian Navy after four and a half years of war at sea. He had met & married Phyllis Lawrence of Guelph, Ont. She had converted him to Christadelphianism, a 96-year-old. Brooklyn-born faith which does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: Christadelphian | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

* The Civil Aeronautics Board blamed an Army bomber pilot for crashing into an American Airlines plane near Palm Springs, Calif. in October 1942, killing twelve. A court-martial acquitted the pilot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Hero's Sentence | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

¶ Hitler. "Whatever comes of this war there must be no killing of Hitler. Not that there can be any serious objection in these sanguinary days to a certain amount of preventive and exemplary killing. . . . There is a long list of sane men, torturers, sadists and murderers, who should be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mr. Wells Sees Through It | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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