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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Baron Decies, 77, bluff, bristling Irish peer, British soldier and fighting Conservative; in Ascot, England. He had two U.S. wives (first a Gould, then a Drexel), steadily battled for the taxpayer against "overswollen government bureaucracy," also saw action in the Matabele Rebellion (1896-97), Boer War and the Somaliland ("Mad Mullah" campaign -1903-04), was Chief Press Censor for Ireland during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

Your article on the women in the services [TIME, Jan. 17] makes me mad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...named Meloncito. Stepping out with the muleta before the kill, Procuna stopped to salute a friend in the stands. As he did so Meloncito charged, tossed him, goring him in the thigh. He leaped to his feet smiling, played the bull brilliantly and then killed it. The crowd went mad as he limped out with his white pantaloon and stocking red with blood. At the infirmary they found his wound was four inches deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bad Season for Bulls | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...noise experiment has always been performed on sheltered laboratory rats. For his own tests, he hunted down more than 100 wild rats in Baltimore alleys and warehouses, caged them and gave them the standard dose of shrill whistles and air blasts. Contrary to expectations, the wild rats got mad and tried to bite the whistles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shockproof Rats | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Bertrand Russell, who looks like a twinkling Mad Hatter and talks like a twinkling Alice, has found the U.S. a through-the-looking-glass wonderland. Some reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Earl Goes Home | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

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