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...think about very much. I just said to myself the bastards won't get me alive and they aren't going to live either. I got the last grenade and held it. When they got real close to me, I was going to pull the pin and let it go between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...there real still and they come up slow as hell. I was just ready to pull the pin when a hell of an explosion came between me and them. It must have been our artillery. The next thing I knew I was at the bottom of a rise. I must have been rolled 100 feet or more. What happened to the gooks I don't know. They weren't around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Destiny's Draftee | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...popular force is not yet effectively organized. The U.S. shows no present intention of encouraging or using the anti-Communists of Formosa or the mainland to undermine Mao in his own backyard. This in spite of estimates that, with a little help from outside, the anti-Communist Chinese could pin down half the Chinese Red army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Paris | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...strapping Wagnerian Soprano, Helen Traubel. From his first baffled exclamation at seeing her in Brünnhilde's armor ("Holy smoke, she's been drafted!"), through a passage from Die Walküre (in which Durante was a voiceless, baffled Siegmund), to his piteous attempts to pin a corsage on her coat of mail, Durante brilliantly played the role of a frustrated longhair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Show | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

...freshmen came from behind to win. With Harvard trailing, 11 to 5, Dick Mortimer gained a late fall to win the decision, and Chick Chandler, Phil Waring, and Gene Booker all pinned. Chandler, the 167-pound man, and Oakleigh Thorne, who started the match with a pin, were particularly impressive. They won their bouts in the second period, Chandler employing a neat cradle hold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, Freshman Wrestlers Win Openers From Engineers | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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