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...timing plan which will enable them to stay in the room and breathe at the same time. Meanwhile Al Zadnichek (for the first time since he arrived) is happy that he's 180th in our alphabetical listing. He can choose any one of four bunks for his sack-drills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 6/6/1944 | See Source »

...revolution, she found the city of her girlhood a graveyard. On her first night there she stumbled through the snow to the shattered summerhouse in the ruins of her family home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia Revisited | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

...originates with the four month boys in the breakfast line; despite the trial on the entry duty officers, and despite the necessity of foregoing the obvious pleasure of taking our deepknee bends before dawn with the midshipmen, we've spent a fortunate week in the sack-hitting regard. And to make it better, the monsoon season is overdue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: -:- The Lucky Bag -:- | 4/28/1944 | See Source »

...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - The Forlorn | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Humor. Just as Americans know Superman and Mickey Mouse, Germans know Kohlenklau (Coal Pincher), a funny-looking but evil kobold. His creator, egg-bald Berlin Cartoonist Hans Landwehrmann, endowed him with a bushy walrus mustache, a saucy apache cap. The little robber carries a huge thief's sack, crams into it precious fuel and food wasted by careless Germans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Not Yet | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

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