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Fans cheered and applauded Flynn's first appearance on the screen. Later, when he murmured dreamily of the Girl Back Home, they gave the wolf cry-a long-drawn woooo-woooo-ooo! When Flynn offered a fellow pilot "a few good telephone numbers," the house broke into a dionysiad of whistles, wolf calls, boos, belly laughter. This was not only true of San Francisco: at the end of many a showing of Desperate Journey, cinemaudiences have endorsed Cinemactor Flynn with loud & long applause. Probably unnecessary, in fact, is Warner Bros.' already famed deletion-from the Desperate Journey trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popularity | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

That was the Japanese plan. Its execution would not be so simple. The Dutch had a mobile Army of perhaps 50,000 well-armed white and brown troops, 50,-ooo not so well armed. "Some thousands" of Australian, British and U.S. soldiers were on the island, and probably were held for last-ditch shock attack. Short of artillery, short even of ammunition for the various calibers of Dutch, U.S., British, Swedish, German and Italian rifles, pistols and machine guns, the Dutch ordnance men had made much out of little. They juggled rifle parts to fit their ammunition supply. For armored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF JAVA: Voice of Doom | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Competent Major General George Grunert, whom MacArthur superseded as commander of U.S. Army Forces, had laid the ground work for vigorous defense before he left. MacArthur set about bringing his more than 20,000 Filipino regulars under U.S. command and prepared for the gradual incorporation of more than 125,-ooo Filipino reserves. Racing against time, MacArthur demanded, and began to receive, a sizable trickle from the spigot of U.S. production. Transports threaded the maze of the island waterways, bringing U.S. troops, planes, technicians, tanks. Out of the East, Flying Fortresses roared to secret concentrations within the islands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Destiny's Child | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...that time New Yorkers looked seriously at the facts of Harlem life: ^ Harlem covers three square miles in the northern section of Manhattan above Central Park. It is an anthropologist's heaven, bulging with a population of 250,-ooo American, African and West Indian Negroes, 125,000 Puerto Ricans, 150,000 Italians, Chinese, Filipinos, East Indians, Haitians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Door-Key Children | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...Steel earnings held steady: $34,313,-ooo against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Good Third Quarter | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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