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Women had turned out to be more awed than men by the military structure. Colonel Frank U. McCoskrie, who occasionally inspected a lineup, asking questions, once snapped at a WAC recruit: "Who is the commandant?" Back came the answer: "Colonel Frank U. McCoskrie." To the next WAC he said: "What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Hobby's Army | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

*Two-eared, three-legged sacrificial vessels.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Nine Tings of Yü | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

Episode at Changteh. Unmelting Chinese troops last week crept back through the blackened ruins of Changteh, harassing the bedraggled, bandy-legged Japanese in retreat toward their Yangtze River bases. The communiqués once again created an impression of another violent battle in a continuous, violent war. The impression was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Objective: Limited | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Hollywood has found a sensational new comic of peerless proportions and undiscovered sex. He or she (nobody can tell) is a black-bodied, yellow-legged, orange-beaked Mynah bird named Raffles which has a positive genius for saying the wrong thing at the right time in an Oxford accent.*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bird | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

In the living room, near the pink-tiled fireplace, Sam has a flat-topped, eight-legged desk, flanked by pictures of Robert E. Lee and Franklin Roosevelt. Upstairs is his den, lined with volumes of Texas history. The Rayburns live well: breakfasts of ham & eggs, biscuits and honey; lunches and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Mister Speaker | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

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