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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...string of decorations. He has got around-as a sort of Air Forces diplomat. He got along with the Russians, helped persuade them to give the Allies bomber bases. He got along with the British as Eisenhower's deputy air commander in London (the British refer to his tactical planning as "outstanding"). He was at the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Back in Stride | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...other fowl (sometimes even ordinary hens) carry a virus similar to that of psittacosis, the much dreaded parrot disease. Both viruses produce a virus pneumonia, but the parrot virus is much more dangerous, usually killing about 18% of its victims. Both behave so much alike that medical men now refer to all bird-borne virus pneumonias as ornithosis, and call both viruses "members of the psittacosis group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ornithosis | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Alas. With the money in the hands of a neutral party, they refer me to Yank magazine's figures on the casualties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...your Dec. 4 issue, you refer to the appointment of a Mathew W. Bullock to the Chairmanship of the Massachusetts Parole Board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1945 | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Together Again (Columbia) is a title which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

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