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...cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked them out with TNT. Infantry. On the heels of the demolition units went the infantry. It was not announced which divisions were in the first wave, but two U.S. divisions were identified as taking part in the invasion: the storied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Those Who Fought | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...Henry Topping," thought to be the 81 -year-old widow of an American missionary who went to Japan in 1895 and died there. She laments war per se in a quavering but clear voice. Mrs. Topping's son, Willard, of Boulder, Colo., denies that hers is his mother's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: By Any Other Name | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

Leila Drew rang the gate bell of the modernistic house at No. 1770 Calle Tronador. Inside, she passed two babies playing at a yard man's knee. She asked to see Señora Diligenti. The Señora was nervous and reluctant, but after a woman-to-woman sales talk Mrs. Drew got a look at the other three babies, in neat yellow cribs in a sunny downstairs nursery. She even had her hands on a picture of all five, when forceful Papa Diligenti (whose name means just what it looks like) came in and took it away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Full House | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

Delfino v. Dafoe. Last July the prosperous Diligentis were vacationing in a fashionable resort in the Córdoba Hills, 400 miles from Buenos Aires. The Señora, who was expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Full House | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...Milan, Italy, 45 years ago, came to Argentina in 1923. He is tall, well-built, with thin blond hair and slightly bulgy blue eyes. Starting from scratch, he made about a million dollars, owns three large farms, a dye works, a textile mill and a vegetable-oil factory. Señora Ana María Aversavo de Diligenti, pleasant, plump, 42 and also born near Milan, came to Argentina as a singer with a small opera company, leaving a husband in Italy. She gave up her career eight years ago when she and a small son, by her first husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Full House | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

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