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...warm portrayal of the Filipinos, the picture lends lustre to their loyalty by making no secret of their frequent misgivings. But convincing as the story is, the picture is at its best in the faked but grimly realistic battle scenes. In one sequence, outnumbered U.S. and Philippine defenders mow down Japs by the hundred as they try to cross a barbed-wire fence. Best shot: a body, which turns out to be Colonel Wayne, spun, twisted and tossed several feet in the air by the concussion of an exploding shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 9, 1945 | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

Schwartz took a garbage pail, a frying pan, a length of stovepipe, an electric motor and two pulleys, put them all together, produced a rotary snowplow that could also mow a lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Wide-eyed Britishers last week were getting a new glimpse of a typical American hurry-up job. In London's Camberwell, Battersea and Lambeth boroughs, they watched some 3,000 U.S. Army engineers mow down whole sections of blitzed houses with bulldozers almost overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Restoration Period | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Mow-w-w-w You Down." The turn in their luck came in Chicago. Out of work and deeply discouraged, Charlie and Bergen got a week's tryout at the Chez Paree nightclub. At 3 o'clock one morning they came on for their final per formance. The club was almost empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cultivated Groaner | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...middle of their act, Charlie suddenly reared up, turned to Bergen and said: "Who the hell ever told you you were a good ventriloquist?" Bergen blushed, fidgeted, tried to put his hand over Charlie's mouth. "Don't shush me," Charlie continued. "I'll mow-w-w-w you down. You better go back to the farm and leave me alone. I'll get by, but you're all through, brother, all through." Charlie then turned on the customers and told them they were a disgrace to civilization. Bergen put him on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cultivated Groaner | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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