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...talk tonight he will answer those questions, and any others that the audience wants him to, including his inside story of Belgtan mass evacuation, and the rout of Sedan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McAFEE LECTURES ON FRANCE'S FALL | 11/3/1942 | See Source »

...wrote the news of the last war have told me that GHQ (in France) placed a limousine at the disposal of each correspondent. . . . Here in the Port Moresby area we have two pick-up trucks and one sedan for about 20 Australian and American correspondents and photographers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Appraisal | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Oldsters in Chicago newsrooms chortled with glee. Times had returned that they had thought were gone forever. Complete with pictures, "Xs" marking spots, big-time crime had busted loose on Page 1 again. All the worn but reliable cliches were dusted off: "Big black sedan . . . sawed-off shotguns . . . far-flung man hunt . . . cold-blooded killers." Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, Bad Basil ("The Owl") Banghart and five other long-term incorrigibles had lammed from Illinois' supposedly escape-proof Stateville Prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Back to the Roaring '20s | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

Global Grace. General Marshall likes to be out with the troops, but last week, as he is most of the time, he was in Washington. At 7:30 each morning he stepped from a black Buick sedan and walked into the Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue. In his big, plain office on the second floor, next door to the Secretary of War, he began his day by looking through "the log"?a sheaf of radiograms and cables from Britain, Iceland, Newfoundland, Alaska, the Caribbean, Brazil, British Guiana, Ecuador, West Africa, North Africa, Persia, Hawaii, Australia, the Solomons, India, China?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,THE COST: God Help George Marshall | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

...real fun in The Major and the Minor are Ginger's relations with the lovelorn cadets. Each of them tries to kiss her by showing her "how they took Sedan," then offering to show her how Paris fell. Cadet Wigton (Raymond Roe) takes Sedan with a fuzzily rapacious kiss, fails to take Paris. The other boys superimpose a line of their own on this basic strategy. Cadet Osborne (Frankie Thomas Jr.) turns out to be Masher Benchley's boy. Like his old man, he uses the Park Avenue technique, tells her that "you and I could make beautiful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

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