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...South Pacific base: Hold Back the Dawn, wherein the sheep-eyed Mr. Charles Boyer repeatedly repels a beautiful, though patently wicked, brunette (to the hoots of its sailor audience who had not seen a white woman in a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Better Movies Overseas? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

...professional heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Biggest Event | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Railway Ties. In Manhattan, the Pennsylvania R.R.'s 26-year-old brake-woman Jocelyn Wagner backed up her argument for seniority equal to men's: "I love the work. It's the nearest thing to being a sailor. ... I like the way the sun falls on those crazy little burgs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

Beckham was still eight short of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's U.S. record of 26, far under the R.A.F.'s brilliant Spit-fireman, Group Captain Adolph "Sailor" Malan, who destroyed 32 Nazi planes, most of them during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Top R.A.F. pilot still in combat is Squadron Leader Colin Grey, with

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Major Shaves | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...SAILOR, TAKE WARNING-Kelley Roos -Dodd, Mead & Co. ($2). The middle-aged yacht enthusiast was stabbed in broad daylight on a knoll overlooking a Central Park lake, in full view of Jeff Troy and his wife, who trail an exceptionally well-concealed killer through exciting, amusing situations. Good detecting, pleasant people and good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in January, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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