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...fought in France beside American troops. In World War II he achieved a major triumph by crushing the Wehrmacht's desperate attempt to relieve the army trapped at Stalingrad. Today his is the crucial job of clamping the lid on the Germans caught in the southern rattrap. The Red Army regards him as a subtle and original tactician, second only to Rokossovsky as a daring and two-fisted field commander...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: For Whom the Guns Roll | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

Find. In San Francisco, a county official hunted in a home for the will of a stenographer who was believed to have died penniless. He found a secret panel, slid it open, put his hand into a rattrap. Under the trap: jewelry, papers, a bankbook with deposits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1942 | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...that inherits a race horse which won't start with the rest of the field. Unfortunately the family has an inventive cousin who has already cluttered up the house with a shoe-shining device that pops out of the wall, a musical chair that plays when rocked, a rattrap shaped like an egg beater (supposed to fool the rats, it fools instead the colored maid). He has also put the family into the business of making hamburgers saturated with vodka, landing the Old Man in jail. Wanting to redeem himself, the cousin attempts to psychoanalyze the race horse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...threat potentially more fearsome to gamblers, however, than State's Attorney Courtney-whose zeal, they guessed, would cool after election-was an archaic legal rattrap brought out and set last week by an irate Chicago matron in behalf of her son-in-law. Paragraph No. 330 (enacted in 1817) of Illinois' Criminal Code sets forth that: 1) any person losing $10 or more gambling in Illinois can sue the winner and recover his money; 2) if a loser does not sue within six months, "any person" can sue the winner for three times the loser's losses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Gamblers and Rattrap | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

...plate again!") When his parents displease him he retires to a fully furnished packing-box stockade in the corner of a room, named "Snitzy Arms." ("So you're not living with us any more!") When Mamma loses Philbert in a department store she finds him in the rattrap department, inside a trap. When she loses him at a cinema theatre, the usher finds Philbert stuck to the chewing gum under the seat. Last month Philbert achieved one distinction never granted Henry. He appeared on Collier's cover, in full color, for New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Henry & Philbert | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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