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Winston Churchill, who wore a yellow Mae West, navy blue overcoat, Trinity House cap, saw two Spitfires down a Nazi bomber, saw himself depicted as an octopus on a Nazi propaganda poster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Phase of the war had begun auspiciously. West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance. Moscow's Pravda quoted Nazi prisoners: "The swiftness of events defies description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Victory and Blood | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...story, which manages to be popular and literate at the same time, tells of the efforts of a gallant old lady of reduced means (Grace George) to fight the local political octopus (Edward McNamara) through her newspaper. It also reports the help she gets, in dire extremity, from a hobo ex-journalist (James Gagney). En-route to victory the hobo develops an interest in the old lady's niece (Marjorie Lord), makes a useful friend of the whooping, plume-clad matron of the local sin hall (Marjorie Main), and punches his way through enough physical obstruction to appease those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1943 | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...Stalino, the heart of the Donets Basin area. When the Germans occupied it 23 months ago, they hopefully set up in it a branch of the Nazi industrial octopus, the Hermann Göring Combine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: On to Kiev | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

...World," and sprinkled with un-Shakesperian asides, he unfolds 232 pages of diagrams and diagnoses. He also expounds for pages on three of the most treacherous openings ever devised: the Edinburgh Single, a deciding factor in more match and tournament games than any other known opening; the Octopus, whose "manifold tentacles . . . have ensnared many of the game's ablest critics"; and Oliver's Twister, a baffler ever since Manhattan's Oliver J. Mauro laid down its basic "theme" some years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dama's Followers | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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