Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...link up with government forces to the south (TIME, Dec. 13). By last week one entire group-General Sun Yuan-Hang's Sixteenth, with 40,000 men-had been completely wiped out. The remaining troops were huddled into an area ten miles in diameter of flat, marshy land 50 miles southwest of Suchow...
...agile columns (about 30,000 men) slipped over the muddy stream, struck at the Nationalist rear. At points less than 60 miles from Nanking the raiders tore up several sections of the government's single-track rail line to the front. Temporarily, at least, all land communications were cut between the capital and its last effective defense force...
...dominant quality of De Havil-land's Virginia is the contrast between her madness and the pretty, still-young face. In her case, insanity seems as" incongruous as in Ophelia's. This quality gives her entire performance the profound sadness of Laertes' question: . . . Is't possible a young maid's wits should be as mortal as an old man's life...
...What's the Guy Got?" Nothing has surprised students of Olivia de Havil-land's case history more than her 1946 marriage to Marcus Goodrich. Hollywood knew little about him, except that he had written one Kiplingesque novel (Delilah), and had been married four times. She was 30, he 48. "I can't understand it," said one of her friends recently. "What has this guy got? If he was some young punk who just bowled her over . . . But how, how could this happen...
...time is coming when an airliner can fly through the air (stormy) with the greatest of ease and land on an airport (fogbound) as if the day were clear. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Authority was busily installing "omniranges": the key gadget of the new navigation system. Two hundred and seventy of them are already in place. By early next summer there will be over 400, blanketing nearly...