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...Sevastopol. Five, six-story buildings tumble like childrens' block houses. Guerrillas, armed with makeshift guns supplied by the local blacksmith, recapture a village. Tank battle scenes were made through gun slits in the front Russian tanks. After disabling Nazi tanks with shells, machine gunners in a Soviet tank rake Germans trying to escape into the woods. One is hit just as he emerges from the turret. Closeups show the flames licking over his body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Great Russian Film | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...sake alone, Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, and youngest (39) of the four living sons of King George V and Queen Mary, got on with his countrymen. They accepted him as royalty; they relished him as a rake; when in World War II he forsook private gaiety for public chores, they liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Decent Fellow | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Bill Davison stands by the old Chicago tradition of using a cornet instead of a trumpet, but that hardly precludes comparison with James. Bill may not rake in the shekels, but he plays good music far more consistently. Those who have been attracted to the Ken by Pee Wee Russell's fame and clarineting have invariably stayed to hear Davison. On the basis of tone alone, or ideas alone, he is undoubtedly a top-ranking musician. James may play more obviously difficult pieces, but Davison occasionally gets off some amazingly technical stuff himself, and this always in good taste...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...year, worth $2.90 a Ib. as ferro-vanadium. This white metal is vitally needed to increase the tensile strength of steel. As such it will be snapped up like soda pop at a ball game; sale of this by-product alone will rake in almost as much cash in one year as National Lead has spent on the whole Maclntyre development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Need to Import? | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...hurried along the french and took over the gun, corrected, the fire, and began to rake the enemy." The Nipponese tide was sent fleeing in disorder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWORDS, BAYONETS CAN BEAT JAPS, SAYS CHINESE SOLDIER | 5/5/1942 | See Source »

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