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Should the Caucasus battle develop this winter, it is likely to be a personal-leader struggle between German General Siegmund List and Russian General Melnik. Melnik conducted the guerrilla offensive all last winter behind the German lines. He is more of a flat-terrain soldier than a mountaineer, but the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: A SONG FROM THE CAUCASUS | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

The fierce, unequal battle for the air is accompanied in this novel by the battle for the land. War Correspondent Aldridge reports this fighting from personal experience (he was correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Battle Above Olympus | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Throughout Australia the Dutch are revered, especially by the Americans. The opinion is unanimous that the Dutchmen of Java fought as bravely as the Spartans at Thermopylae or the Texans in the Alamo. "I'll fight the man who says anything against the Dutch," drawls a fierce little towheaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: WITH THE COURAGE OF LIONS - AND BALING WIRE | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

>Now a judge of North Carolina's Superior Court, Felix E. Alley-on whose Random Thoughts and Musings of a Mountaineer TIME reported - has had quite a life of his own. Born in 1873 at the base of North Carolina's Whiteside Mountain, Felix was the youngest of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1941 | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Since the day Lincoln was nominated for the Presidency, amateur historians of North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains have tried to prove that he was illegitimate. The Calhoun theory was not new. When it was first advanced, in 1911, it was soon shown that the Nancy Hanks in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Nancy Hanks's Son | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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