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Random Hits. Witnesses who saw the V-2 falling at night said it looked like a "falling star" or "the tail of a comet." By day, it looked like "a flying telegraph pole." Louder than V1, the rocket explosion could be heard for 20 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: V-2 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed it as a "grand statement" that showed "American sportsmanship." Not till 3 a.m. did the cautious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Vice-Presidency | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...process for turning soy beans into auto fuel, 3) another bureaucrat (Charles Ruggles), who is too amorous to keep his mind on affairs of state, 4) a G-man, a porter, two chambermaids, five babies, a proudly beavered Orthodox priest. This screen version of The Doughgirls is even louder than the stage original, but not so fast and not so funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Oct. 16, 1944 | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...elaborately made, in little slippery squares and patterns." Of South Africa: "Large animals, while more numerous than they should be, are not an influential segment of the population. . . . None of the animals in South Africa have learned to keep quiet. Lions roar, monkeys chatter and even crickets squeak louder than is reasonable. The trees contain doves which croak and gurgle constantly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Riad to Roosevelt | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Germany was beset on all fronts by enemies of vast and growing power. But no salvo of massed Russian cannon, no U.S. or British blockbuster thundered louder in the ears of the Herrenvolk than the bomb of Berchtesgaden. That was the chilling symbol of disintegration in the Nazi regime's only bulwark against total defeat and ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Question Mark | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

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