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...less than 20 minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Tobruk, After 33 Weeks | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

...Pivotal Values." Speaking with an occasional Scottish burr, Dr. Gillespie cited facts & figures to prove British sanity. Some of his data...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War & Sanity | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Scottish woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: R for Raids | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

Tommy Hart had a tough time struggling through Annapolis. Born in David son, Mich., of Revolutionary stock on his father's side, Scottish on his mother's, Tommy Hart was an undersized 15-year-old when he won his appointment to the Naval Academy. There he was derisively christened "Dad." Puny, next to the youngest in his class, he wobbled along For a couple of years, picking up a bit of wooden-ship lore on summer cruises in square-riggers, distinguishing himself not at all. But in his last two years at the Academy he began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Admiral at the Front | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew of six. Theirs is an ominous journey-through cotton-wool clouds, across rivers like threads of dirty tinsel, above the grey, night-hung earth. The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone. To his Scottish navigator: "Hey, Mac, where are we now, as if you'd know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching Karlsruhe-famous for its breweries, you know." "O.K., let's go down and smell its breath." Over the target the mood changes. Flak (antiaircraft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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