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Married. Dorothy Schiff Hall Backer, 39, owner and publisher of New York's pale pink Post; and Theodore Olin Thackrey, 42, the Post's editor since 1942; each for the third time; a week after she divorced former Post Publisher George Backer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...definitely dominated, numerically at least, by an Army organization called the Corps of Military Police. And it doesn't help much to know that the Medics are second most numerous in McKinlock. The coast Artillery comes third and the Air Corps fourth. For the interest of persons who pale at the sight of a column of figures, the statistics are as follows; Military Police 60, Coast Artillery 33, Medics 41, Air Forces 25, Infantry 23 (how did THEY sneak in?) Field Artillery 15, Corps of Engineers 14, Recruiting Stations 13, Ordnance 6, Quartermaster 5, Harbor Defenses 2, and Armored Forces...

Author: By Bruce Westley, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/6/1943 | See Source »

...between two hills we came into full view of the enemy, who could now strike us with enfilading fire. Some soldiers drove into a narrow ditch to ascend the slope, but the Colonel strode straight up the hill. As we climbed everyone grew faint, turning pale and looking at each other in the naked frankness of misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Taking of White House Hill | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Bombs Away. For a moment no fighters were attacking. There had been no time to watch France pass below us. As I glanced out now, there was Paris, a pale gold pattern in the clear morning light, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs Elysées, the Seine glinting silver. Flak seemed to be mushrooming up from nowhere. In a moment Le Bourget was in sight. Johnny started fiddling with the release. As Johnny quietly said: "Bombs away," a cluster dropped from the Fortress close beside us. The Forts moved too fast for us to see the bombs hit, but photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: HOLIDAY OVER PARIS | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...When Tom was frightened both his face and his stomach lining turned pale. When Tom was depressed, his stomach lining, which usually reddened and increased its secretion of acid after a dose of beef bouillon, hardly responded at all to such feeding. When Tom got mad, his face got red and so did his stomach. (This happened when an officious clinic secretary angered him.) More than any other emotion, anxiety increased the amount of blood in the stomach membrane and the amount of acid secretion. When Tom was anxious (e.g., worry about his stepdaughter's illness and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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