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Scar-lipped Major General George C. Kenney, new Allied air commander in the Southwest Pacific area (see p. 63), said his flyers were taking a five-to-one toll of Jap planes. But he added: "If anybody thinks we haven't got a fight on our hands down here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Slugging Match | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

The idyllic landscape above and the luminous nude at the left are recent paintings by the once bitterest satirist in modern German art. In World War I, in which he fought unwillingly-he was a pacifist-Berlin-born George Grosz conceived an emetic loathing for man and all his works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: GEORGE GROSZ | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Upholstered in Western clothes, Tsahai and her mother went out sometimes to tea, chatted politely, accepted as polite the thin-lipped smiles of Bath. Tsahai learned to accept her isolation with the dignity her father so frequently recommended. She enrolled in a London hospital for a nurse's training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Sheba's Child | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

As reports came of the shooting of 96 French war prisoners for refusing to work in a German camp, of the execution of ten Poles for sabotaging railroads, of the slaying of three Norwegians for sheltering Russian marines, tight-lipped Dutchmen buried their five dead.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OCCUPIED EUROPE: They Who Were Killed | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Many survivors, said the tight-lipped Admiralty, were picked up. Others from the Manchester were believed to have reached the Tunisian coast. On total losses the British were mum, although they claimed destruction of two Axis U-boats. At week's end they issued a stoical report:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE MEDITERRANEAN: Not Without Loss | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

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