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Crawling back to his Canadian infantry outfit after a scouting mission in Italy. Captain Bob Chard blundered into a position held by Greek troops. A sentry challenged. Captain Chard answered in purest fraternity-house Greek: "Delta Upsilon; Phi Kappa Psi." The sentry promptly opened fire and threw a grenade. Chard is recovering in a base hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Greek Meets Strange Greek | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Uses ties of purest gold...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/8/1944 | See Source »

...knew this new American folk idiom. Today, the popularity of Duke Ellington among the name bands, the crowded bistros of New York's 52nd Street and Greenwich Village, and the prodigious increase in the issue of jazz recordings attest that people, far from becoming bored with the earliest and purest forms of folk music, are just beginning to cultivate an appreciative taste for them...

Author: By Charles Kallman, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 6/13/1944 | See Source »

...military affairs (one of which praised Germany). After the manner of all military biographers, his associates say that he was a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian who was liked by his subordinates. Always in his mind and on his lips was the conviction that the Army was the purest, finest, most Argentine thing in Argentina. While in charge of troops in Mendoza in 1941, he started a "crusade for spiritual renovation"-which worked out as a scheme to staff the Argentine Government with idealistic, hard-working and deeply nationalistic young Army officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Sobered Perón | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

What all this meant to J.W.T. in new billings was in the area of purest guesswork. Tide, advertising weekly, guessed at least $7,000,000, added that the bonanza put Thompson "neck & neck with Young & Rubicam for the No. 1 spot." Tide seemed overkind to Y. & R.: J.W.T. itself admits to $17,000,000 of new business during the past two years. Said Y. & R., in its best let's-not-knife-the-competition-in-public manner: "No comment." And the peripatetic Ford account, for which J.W.T. hastily divested itself of its small slice of Chrysler business, moved over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Boom at J.W.T. | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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