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...splendid air of co-operation and incipient unity overhung the sundry British, Chinese, U.S. commands in India, China, the Southwest Pacific, the South Pacific and the Central Pacific last week. From New Delhi, where this feeling was highest, TIME Correspondent James Shepley cabled...
...deepening sense of imminent, decisive action overhung the Russian front. Hitler had promised one final effort to knock the Russians out of the war. Stalin, in a cordial message to the victors of Tunisia, said that a coordinated blow by the Red Army in the east and the Allies in the west was very near...
...Time & Life Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Every hour, on the hour, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the little bird sashayed from side to side, opened its beak and sang its song. The little bird's perch was in a wooden tree which overhung the head of a startled-looking horseman (see cut), also carved of wood. The whole thing formed the central figure of famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles's latest piece of sculpture, Man and Nature...
...strewn patio. He wandered about, pausing now & then to enjoy that most bourgeois of bourgeois things: a garden, not for food, but for pleasure. Geraniums were sprouting from pots, roses bursting in bloom, chickens cackling in coops, rabbits copulating in warrens, birds twittering with sunset nervousness in trees that overhung the 20-foot garden wall. The trees cast flickering shadows across the patio. The sky over Mexico City was sharp, clear blue, with puffy clouds in the distance...
...reciprocal trade agreement and cut some imports by 50%. The Pan American Coffee Conference, meeting in Manhattan last week, tried to decide what to do with 924,000,000 lb. of coffee that used to go annually to Europe. Other hemispheric surpluses, directly competitive with U. S. crops, overhung the U. S. farmer...