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...Palermo harbor Reynolds found a destroyer (nickname: "The Mighty May") battered to a pulp, low in the water, listing badly. He boarded it and asked for the executive officer. A sailor said: "Who, Big Pancho? . . . That's him. The big guy in dungarees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Young Frank | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...Fifth-Grader Marjorie Frederick, 24, married a sailor, followed him to Florida was replaced by Anna Belle Johnson, 22 (three years' experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hawkeye View | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...football's greatest worry is that draft boards may get unsporting ideas. A dozen players are 4Fs; one is an ex-sailor who survived two sinkings and 14 days in an open boat. Unique among pro footballers is Danny Fortmann of Colgate, a crack guard for the Bears. He is the League's sole Phi Beta Kappa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pro Progress | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...teaching. What Yale is doing with Burmese, Malayan, Japanese, Chinese and-most popular of all-Russian, is being done in pretty much the same way with other tongues elsewhere: University of California (Thai, Annamese), Pennsylvania (Moroccan Arabic, Hausa, Fanti) Indiana (Turkish). Noise Guide. Charming, handsome Shwe Waing was a sailor; his home port was Rangoon, where once a soothsayer said he would become a teacher. Last spring Yale picked him off Ellis Island. Technically Shwe Waing is no teacher but a guide through the jungle of Burmese vocables. Every morning for an hour he produces them as ordered by Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Road to Mandalay | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...Sailors from Pearl Harbor and soldiers from Africa have spent long weeks in hospitals suffering from flash burns covering big areas of skin. A sailor stripped to the waist burns much worse than one wearing a skivvy shirt. So the Navy now tries to make men keep their shirts on in battle. The new cream covers the places clothing cannot-hands and face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sailor, Cream Yourself | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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