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...which they love to pin flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil its way through. Incidentally, the percentage of shot-down pilots who managed to find their way back through the jungles is phenomenally high. They often must swim down rivers to the sea, risking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yanks in New Guinea | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

REVEILLE IN WASHINGTON - Margaret Leech- Harper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington at War | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

This book makes the U.S. Civil War real, tragic, fantastic and much more read able than World War II. Author Leech's (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) literary sector is the home front at the point where all its conflicts were most fiercely focused -Washington, D.C. Her purpose: to show the city and the nation that converged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington at War | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...works in masses of racy and ironic detail, leaves almost nothing out, has no use for filters. By the open sewers of Swampoodle (an Irish slum), in bivouacs and bordellos as well as at Willard's bar and the President's receptions, Author Leech makes history's dead bones come to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Washington at War | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...became interested in falconry; by 16 he was writing learned articles on the ancient sport. At 41, while commander of the post at Aden, he took up sailing; and read every book he could get until he had mastered every salty trick of luff and leech. Also at Aden, he became interested in photography; and cared so much for detail that he went into micro-pictures, snapping miniature plants and shells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Blitz for Germany | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

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