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...found Casey and Tex together, as I had always known them, packing in their room. There were six bottles of whiskey left and we took them along. Casey stuffed a useless pillow into his baggage. "My wife gave me that." he said. "I'll be damned if I leave it for the Japs." We all got into a car and drove down to the B25. Casey was pilot, Tex crouched behind him. We were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: The Taste of Defeat | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 27, 1944 | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Somberly, the little man with venom in his heart went home. At midnight, his mind was made up. In the way prescribed by the rigid samurai code, Nakano purified himself with cold water, donned a new kimono, knelt on a pillow before a small shrine. With a sure hand, he plunged a dagger into his belly, drew it across, then turned it upwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Hara-Kiri | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...Oscar interrupted his reading back of testimony when he came to a statement that the sheets on Harold Christie's bed were ruffled and the pillow dented. "Ruffled?" mused the Justice. "I think 'rumpled' is a better word. However, we shall leave it 'ruffled' as it means nearly the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAHAMAS: The Ruffled Sheet | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...balsam wood, several barrels of paint. Out of these Father planned one day to fashion his own duck decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between A. G. Spalding and Abercrombie & Fitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Six Sousas | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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