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Sturdy, well armed, and round-bottomed to wallow over the waves rather than cut through them, the Angry is a queer duck to be flying a U.S. ensign. Her 206-ft. length is shorter than a destroyer's, longer than most cutters'. In the Royal Navy, for which she was built in 1940, she was classed as a corvette. When Britain gave the ship and five others like her to the U.S. last March, the U.S. Navy quickly changed her name and classed her with gunboats, since the U.S. has no corvette class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Heroics Without Headlines | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

...military expert; his political remarks should be taken either with a grain of salt or several highballs. The general has been called an admirer of Fascism, was even photographed in the days before the war with the gentleman who has since become Lord Haw-Haw. He drops queer passing remarks, which smack of racism, anti-plutocratism, and other Nazi cliches. Example (explaining the Mexican War): "Since the days of Cortés and his followers the country had been largely bastardized, and the half-caste race resulting had not yet had time to form those traditions so necessary to nationhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For the Armchair Strategist | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...staged by Director Lem Ward (Uncle Harry, Brooklyn, U.S.A.), and the story it tells, unvarnished in its simplicity, is unbeatable in its appeal. Of late years the flossiest of playwrights, Maxwell Anderson in The Eve of St. Mark has contrived no elaborate plot, essayed no vaulting rhetoric, embraced no queer philosophy. He does not have to. While other playwrights have floundered or gone too far afield to dramatize the war, he has been the first to realize that its most compelling-and most communicable-story lies right under every one's nose. He has simply set down the ubiquitous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...Some queer new shortages rose on the U.S. landscape last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Closed for the Duration | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

Pawnbrokers find the goods that cross their counters a reflection of the times. In 1932 business was rotten: the U.S. had run out of things to hock. Now pawnshops-like the nation-are on a queer, priority-ridden, psychologically insecure spree. Despite typewriter freezing (which has stopped loans on a pawnshop specialty), despite the fact that no workman today would think of hocking his irreplaceable micrometers, calipers and toolbox, most U.S. pawnshops are in the money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life in Hock | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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