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The pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Blitz for Germany | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

At the first hints of dawn, new waves of transport planes came in with more parachutists. This time the planes towed gliders, both aqua-gliders and land-skidders, in trains of from two to four apiece. The gliders cast off from their towing planes and swept down in the dim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: MEDITERRANEAN THEATER: Crete Against the Skies | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

At the Ritz-Carlton five waiters took to their heels and got away. Only one, serving a group in the Oak Room, was caught-another waiter took over his customers and his tip. At the Ambassador, at the Caviar, at Joe's Restaurant, other rendezvous from Park Avenue to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Robert Jackson's Busy Week | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

This opinion was enough for one veteran Roosevelt-hater, flashy, pompous Correspondent John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, who wrote a dispatch that certain "Senators" (he meant Mr. Tobey) now knew that the President had permitted the "escorting" of British ships to convoy rendezvous, using the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tobey's Nose | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

When Federal agents nabbed Martin Durkin (a pioneer Dillinger) and his petite moll in a Pullman drawing room, Carson arranged with the Wabash Railway for a prairie train stop, rushed reporters and photographers to the secret rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muscle Journalist | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

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