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...ground burlesque of Britain's wartime flyboys, complete with Samsonian mustaches and a rich flow of RAFfish lingo ("Bang on, wacko, wizard show, I care for that, HA, HA!"). Characteristic Kyte joke: "Whale of a party, sir. I went as radar ... a picture of Queen Anne and a placard pinned to my trousers." Barker: "What did it say?" Kyte: "Dead on the beam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Steady, Barker | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...daylight V.F.W. funmaking provoked fewer hooligans. Proudly the veterans of four wars, 30,000 strong, paraded for five hours through a confetti-tossing mass of cheering New Englanders. Bostonians managed a grin at the placard behind a strutting Lone Star bugle corps: "The horse Paul Revere rode came from Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Boston Tea Party | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...wave of terror was an abortive coup instigated in CÓrdoba by brave but bumbling ex-President General Arturo Rawson. But the resounding demonstration staged in the streets of Buenos Aires last fortnight by 500,000 irate Argentines, some of them bearing a placard of famed Patriot Rogue Saenz Pefia was the tip-off to PerÓn that he had better get tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Back to Normalcy | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...extremely broad. Probably nowhere in the world can you find such varied fare-on successive nights Shakespeare, Sheridan, Chekhov, Goldoni, Ostrovski, Shaw, Molière, Oscar Wilde, Gorki. Occasionally new shows about the "great patriotic war" are produced, like Leonid Leonov's Invasion, a hot and angry placard. But actors and directors take a long view and do not feel that any new plays have yet come out of the war which will live as Russian drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Russia Likes Plays Too | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

Already in World War II scores of returning U.S. fighters are discovering the multiple meanings of the world-old placard "Home Sweet Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: When I Get Home | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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