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...Munns, Prince Serge Obolensky, the Averell Harrimans, Sonny Whitney. Once a weekend at San Simeon lasted six weeks because the old man could not bear to let her go. From the bed she slept in, she could stare at a painting on the ceiling and listen to the lion roar in the private...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cover Girl | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Sister Elizabeth asked Maria Pia and Bernadette to open the windows. From the distant Rhine rolled the thunder of guns. Suddenly, much more loudly, came the roar of planes. Eyes widened in panic, voices shrilled: "Flugzeuge! Flugzeuge!" (Airplanes! Airplanes!). The little girls had remembered fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The First Class | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...looked up, laughing-perhaps it would be necessary to search everyone in the room. Finally, paper in hand, he guessed that he had been a little too conservative. He had given himself 335 votes, Governor Dewey 196. (Final vote: 432 to 99.) The short conference ended with another roar of laughter after the Baltimore Sun's Paul Ward threw a quick curve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Champ Comes Home | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Wonderful, Epoch-Making. Britons were delighted. The press greeted the plan with a roar of approval, pushed the war off the front pages to make room for it. The Times hailed it as "an epoch-making document," the Daily Express as "a wonderful scheme." Only sour note came from the 5,700 approved benefit societies and from the industrial-insurance companies whose activities will be curtailed, if not abolished, by the plan. Said a spokesman: "We shall fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Inevitability of Gradualness | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...slowly, just ahead and to the left of the first wave of amphibious tanks. Those LCLs are firing like coked-up gangsters in a grade-B movie. Rockets go thump, thump, thumping out of them and bursting along the shore. The big rockets, taking off with a coughing roar, scorch the beach and plow up vegetation behind them. Many 20-mm. autoguns are hammering like runaway riveters and weaving red lines of tracer shells alongshore like thin angry fingers prying and poking into every patch that might shelter an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The Beach Approach | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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