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...Kenneth F. Cramer, deputy commander of the embattled 24th Division, watched the fight. Nearby officers noted that a Jap sniper fired every time the 50-year-old National Guardsman took off his helmet to mop his brow. Warned General Cramer promised to keep his hat on his glistening bald pate hidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: General, Dim Your Light | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...chuckles, nevertheless, are there. Mrs. Apley asserts that "Boston men are emotionally dependable they're trained that way," and many a bald pate flushes. "Boston's not a city--it's an environment," says George, and someone from the Chamber of Commerce lets out a grunt of approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 11/10/1944 | See Source »

Heads Up. In Brooklyn, Joseph Roteno, sprinkling the flowers in his second-floor window box, splashed a few drops on the protruding pate of first-floor neighbor Carmino Peravello, who charged up the stairs and nicked neighbor Roteno with an ax before the cops came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold, now a not-too-august U.S. Court of Appeals Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Folklore of Unionism | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...helicopter had been simplified and made as comfortable as any small commercial aircraft. Two years ago, Sikorsky's dream-craft was an uncovered, bony collection of tubular steel and whirling props. Orthodox airmen eyed it askance as Sikorsky, with a too-small fedora perched sedately on his bald pate, dropped down into Connecticut sand pits and flew out again, or started to land on the hangar roof, skipped off it and landed on the apron in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: New Flying Machine | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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