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...guessed rightly that some of it would continue to strike toward Stettin, Berlin's Baltic port. Nazi troops slowed the Russians just short of the towered walls of Stargard, Stettin's outer fortress. But there were not enough Germans to meet all the drives now threatening to sew up Pomerania in a giant pocket. East and south of Stettin the Russians made steady advances in other thrusts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN FRONT: In Zhukov's Good Time | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Worcester's stalling tactics baffled the Stahlmen, and Paul Stagg's quintet pulled away again. Cecil Walton, Schmit, and Kuykendall broke through the Crimson defense to sew up the victory as time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Seeks Initial Win Tonight at M.I.T. | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

Last week Trippe fired a second salvo. Many of his would-be competitors over Latin American routes hope to compete with Pan Am's Atlantic and Pacific services. So Trippe filed for routes that would sew up every major service on the world airways. He plotted on the map of Pan Am's world (see cut) new services to South Africa, to Moscow via Iceland or London, to Asia via Alaska, and to Australia via Hawaii. Most daring of all: the dream of pushing on across the Mediterranean over India, and linking Pan Am's Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Battle Begins | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

This victory, which toppled Tech from the undefeated ranks, was the Crimson's fourth as against one setback. Sweeping all three of the doubles contests, the Crimson dissolved a 3-all tie in the singles to sew up the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RACQUETMEN BEAT ENGINEERS BY 6 TO 3 | 9/12/1944 | See Source »

Today, though Manhattan's swankest pub-crawlers flock to hear her, Mme. Alphand is already tired of professional life. Says she, with a Gallic shrug: "If I am not to sing, then I must sew, I must make hats or something." But she admits that she is not doing badly in the new world, says: "Heaven was very charming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Caf | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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