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Beatrice Lillie, Britain's brittle, brilliant No. 1 musicomedienne, working harder than ever at entertaining soldiers since the 1942 death in Far East action of her 20-year-old son, Sir Robert Peel, was signed by Broadway's Billy Rose to make her first U.S. appearance in five years. She will star with Comedian Bert Lahr in Rose's Seven Lively Arts, to open in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Grand Tourists | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...chief of staff." The operational planning brain of his "first eleven" is his present chief of staff, little-known, nervous, brilliant, squeaky-voiced Major General Francis Wilfred ("Freddie") de Guingand. Freddie handles Monty's Intelligence and operations. Personnel and supply problems go to Major General Miles William Arthur Peel Graham, who has virtually revolutionized British Army supply methods. Both men are with him now in Normandy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Meeting in Normandy | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...though to underscore the threat, carriers, detached from Spruance's Fifth Fleet, steamed up to the Bonins. Their planes circled over the Port Lloyd anchorage used by Commodore Matthew C. Perry in 1853, then dived to pock the runways of Peel Island (Chichi Jima) which Perry had vainly urged the U.S. to take for a coaling station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Where It Hurts | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

This brought stunned representatives of almost every foreign government in Washington streaming in to look at the big "orange-peel" map of U.S. plans. The British stared when they saw blue lines running through British territories. The Dutch came to worry about their KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines) interests. The enigmatic Russians came and went, enigmatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Take a Trip to Berlin. . . . | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...infield features "Slats" Slattery and Bill Lutz, while outfield veterans include Sherm Clark and George Boston. The size of the squad will be reduced later when the intramural teams begin to peel off the informal Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY NINE ATTRACTS 45 | 3/31/1944 | See Source »

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