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...inarticulate draft board, the saddest parts of the pother were that Ingersoll had told it he would not permit his employer to ask for his deferment, that Marshall Field's telegram to General Hershey was filed late and out of order, that the board had never been favored with proof of Field's claim that his editor was indispensable. Nonetheless the case was sent up to an Appeal Board, while PM still fulminated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Editor Boiling | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...crew took aboard most of her planes, had three fires under control and another nearly out when an internal explosion (apparently of escaping gasoline fumes) rent the Lexington. At 5:07 p.m., her commander, Captain Frederick Carl Sherman (since promoted to Rear Admiral), gave the sailor's saddest order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: There Were the Japs! | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...National Association of Retail Grocers called this squeeze "disastrous," predicted wholesale bankruptcies unless OPA could iron out their problems in a hurry. Other retailers put a finger on the saddest inequity of all: the failure to provide a wholesale rollback is hardest on the patriotic merchant who tried to keep the lid on his prices (by averaging his costs), while the one who jumped his prices as fast as his costs rose is rewarded. National Retail Dry Goods Association's General Manager Lew Hahn gulped down his disappointment, promised that his 6,000 members "will do their best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: OPA Victim No. 1 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Unless the Crimson basketball team spirit springs out of its hibernation and shows up with its pre-exam punch in tonight's contest with Columbia, it might as well burrow into its retreat for the rest of the season, taking with it one of the saddest basketball records in the recent history of the game at Harvard...

Author: By A.edward Rowse, | Title: LISTLESS HOOPSTERS FACE LIONS, ARMY | 2/21/1942 | See Source »

With a roar and a burst of flame his sleek P39 crashed among the houses of Hempstead (pop: 21,000), south of the air base. Mothers' cries, neighbors' shouts told the incoherent rest of the story of one of the saddest crashes in history. The P39 had fallen near three children at play, doused them with flaming gasoline. That day they died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: MOTHER'S CRY | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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