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...crusty old sailor of 16 years' sea service and a veteran of the Battle of the Java Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...permitted for a lowly sailor to point a moral, I should like to say to all who are in doubt that reform commences in one's own back yard and perfection comes from within. . . . And to those who expect miracles out of the war, there is another old saying: those who live by the sword shall perish by the sword. Even my eight-year-old son knows that fighting settles nothing, but is sometimes necessary in order to preserve one's self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1944 | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends of ostriches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bender | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...only parade was American. Promptly at noon 40 full-dressed members of the U.S. military and naval missions emerged from the Embassy in the Mokhovaya, walked sheepishly back & forth and around the block for the benefit of the newsreels. Asked one little boy of a sailor: "Is this the Second Front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Day of Culture and Rest | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...bishop's sailor son, commander of the flagship of the flotilla which blockaded the Gulf ports, died with a musket ball in his head. The bishop's hard-riding grandson commanded a cavalry squadron in the Battle of Santiago, fought alongside Douglas MacArthur's father in the Philippines, died in the insurrection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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