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cabbage patch, a 14-year-old French lad joined us and clapped his hands in delight. An old man picked up a wooden plank and tried to crush the skull of one of a file of German prisoners who were being paraded down the thoroughfare. Men and women leaned on their picket fences and smiled ironically at their erstwhile masters now humiliated before their eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Liberated | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...instance, think of the thousands of mothers and fathers, wives and sweethearts, and children to whom the Purple Heart which came through the mail is the only consolation they got for the lad they lost? It is their tangible assurance that he was up there swinging when he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...while we thought we had another Lindbergh in Major Bong, because it apparently hurt him to talk. . . . This lad is naturally modest to the point almost of shyness while having deep confidence in his ability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Faint Praise | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

More than ever, both Congress and the President Lad become quick to challenge, slow to compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Stalemate | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...born 64 years ago in a white frame farmhouse that punctuated an otherwise unbroken stretch of prairie in Guthrie County, Iowa. His forebears were Dutch-Scottish. The lad known as Earl Spangler was a thickish, indestructible, average boy who soaked up his book learning without much night work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahout | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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