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Promptly a Canadian Naval officer rushed to the U.S. commander to apologize. Furiously, the Navy Minister at Ottawa, Angus Macdonald, ordered his Pacific Command to get to the bottom of the trouble. A board of inquiry sailed into the case at top speed, pausing only long enough to mutter that the first reports were "greatly exaggerated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: BRITISH COLUMBIA: Joy Ride | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...them for a bottle of Astringosol," suggests a Gold Coaster. "Then mutter, under your breath of course, 'got any weeds?' Naturally, you accumulate a staggering heard of Astringosol, but I find it an excellent chaser for my Camel. This cigarette problem is nothing short of a gold-mine for the small drug companies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Desperates Grab at Astringosol, Waitresses In Beating Cigarette Shortage | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

...Tree. Joe traveled 150,000 miles, played in jampacked halls, hospitals, gun emplacements, rainy ditches, jungle outposts. Once he climbed Canton Island's sole palm tree to entertain the solitary G.I. on lookout duty. Sometimes Comedian Brown would mutter prayers: "Listen, God, this is your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Something for the Boys | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...clearly some fine anonymous camera and sound men in the Signal Corps. The clanging iron gangways, the rattle of unloading, the grunt and nutter of motors struggling in the mud add much to 'Attack's power. And at the film's end the almost inaudible mutter of burial prayers gives a simple validity to the closing shot (an open grave) and to the line: "One day of American living-bought, and paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...nothing wrong with a pacifist that committing murder won't cure. As a boy, Franchot Tone suffered a psychic shock when he shot his dog; after that he was a sourpuss at hunt breakfasts. "Now, if it was the birds that had the rifles," he would mutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 5, 1944 | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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