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Returning across a nearby body of water their precious rubber boat capsized. Cried one: "Damn the generals, save the boat." Most of their clothing and $18,000 in gold were lost. But they saved all the important papers, and, shivering, half-naked, they crept through woodlands to a secret rendezvous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Misunderstanding Ends | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

In Los Angeles tall, blond Army Pilot Lieut. William N. Wilson, 25, met his old friend Airliner Co-Pilot Louis F. Reppert Jr. "It was agreed," said the report of a Congressional investigating committee, "that Lieut. Wilson would attempt to time his take-off [next day] from Long Beach to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Aerial Traffic Cops Needed? | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

Also on exhibition is Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" on the strength of which T. S. Eliot calls Kipling "a great hymn writer." Appearing with the latter poem is Alan Seeger's '10, "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", the most during the World War while serving with the French Foreign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXHIBIT OF POEMS SHOWN AT WIDENER | 8/26/1942 | See Source »

Final settlement of the most-debated question of the year, why the girls came at all, was never reached. But there were some reasons besides traditional and uncomplimentary ones. While fine arts classes were filled with sweaters and skirts and Music 1 listening sessions were acknowledged to be the coziest...

Author: By Judith Handler and Armand SCHWAB Jr., S | Title: 1871 Botany Class, Bustled Girls, School Marms Paved Way for Acceleration-Molded Co-ed Summer School | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

In New Delhi nothing except muted headlines indicated that India was approaching a rendezvous with history. Heat-drugged, half-nude Indians still slept in the shade on sun-baked pavements or sprawled dozing on the grassy lawns of Government buildings and homes of pukka sahibs. From miles away bright British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Toward Disaster? | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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