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For two days Murray sat and took it. When he tried to speak, Lewis stooges yelled: "Sit down!" Choked with anger, Murray lapsed into unhappy, tight-lipped silence. Even girlish-faced, rotund, hard-boiled daughter Kathryn Lewis took a turn at lashing him. Murray, warning the Lewises that their acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: John's Vengeance | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

This letter was circulated in Britain last week. Reginald Pinkerton, its author, is a thin-lipped, jug-eared bachelor of 49 who grasps his rolled umbrella with wary grip, never knowing when he may be attacked by a predatory female. In his young days, as a clerk in a grocery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Alarm of Mr. Pinkerton | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

The survivors of the 9,000 American troops and 27,000 Filipinos fell into the hands of the Jap-all of them U.S. soldiers and U.S. losses. Alongside troops from the mainland, Tagalog and Moro and Igorot had fought just as bravely, died just as tight-lipped and with just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bataan: Where Heroes Fell: Death of an American Illusion | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

The most notable individual submarine foe was tight-lipped Donald Francis Mason, 28-year-old Navy enlisted pilot, who two months ago sent the now-famed message: "Sighted sub, sank same" (TIME, Feb. 9).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Under The Sea In Ships | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

But last week clever George Viereck found himself on trial in Washington for not telling his children's Government all about his work for his Fatherland. Witnesses testified that bespectacled, thick-lipped George Viereck had helped write speeches for Congressmen (including Minnesota's late Senator Ernest Lundeen), had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AXIS AGENTS: Safeguard for Viereck | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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