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...scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France, the Chorus makes a final appearance alone against the night sky, then recedes and fades as the movie takes over from him. In a flash of imagination, Britain's armada is disclosed through mist as the Chorus, already invisible, says: Follow, follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Masterpiece | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Germans might use in Normandy. It developed antibiotics and therapeutic agents against another mysterious, unnamed disease. It discovered a chemical agent to destroy crops (which will have a peacetime use as a weed killer). In an allied project the Navy worked out a plan to spread fatal organisms by mist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Into the Night | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

Shortly after noon, the Sacred Cow lifted its tail, charged down the slushy runway, and lumbered off into the chill mist that veiled Washington's National Airport. All commercial flights that day had been canceled. Harry Truman, as he climbed aboard, turned to the 18 shivering newsmen and grinned: "I'm sorry to bring you boys out in this bad weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sentimental Journey | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...joys: "You won't soon forget dawn high above the glacial labyrinth of crevasses; nor the ... gleam of sunrise flaming into a golden glow; nor the mist spiraling down fast like shreds of lace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Track! | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...plum tree flooded with white birds, the clean curve of a plow as it comes dripping from the earth, the tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eastern Diary | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

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