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Nerve Center. A few dirt roads had once meandered through Guam's hills. Now three-and four-lane paved highways laced the island, leading from harbor to cold-storage plants, asphalt works and ammo dumps. Spread across the island were neat tent cities where marines lived between campaigns, rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Have & To Hold | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

Racism in Canada is even more virulent and vigorous than in the U.S. We have had pitiful pleas from Japanese-Canadians and Caucasian-Canadian friends of the Canadian Nisei asking if some pressure might not be brought to bear by America on the Canadian

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

The Great John L. (United Artists) is chiefly notable as Bing Crosby's first effort as a producer. It dutifully records the Boston Strong Boy (Greg McClure) as he rises to fame and florid magnanimity - through his unhappy marriage with a betighted showgirl (Linda Darnell), his un happy love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 28, 1945 | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

Their nearest neighbor (J. Carrol Naish) is a man so confused and embittered by his own poverty and ambition that he does his best to frustrate their attempt to better themselves. They get a derelict house into shape, desperately watch one of their children wither under pellagra, raise a crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

For four weeks Bet's mother and neighbors frantically scoured the countryside, advertised in the papers, even appealed to the local conjuror (a frightening man who wore a full-bottomed black wig backwards, peering through its curls like a sheepdog). Then, on the evening of Jan. 29, Bet appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mystery of the Vanishing Virgin | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

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