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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters aboard a destroyer, grizzled "Ham" Roberts, whose close-cropped mustache makes him look as though he has merely forgotten to shave, led the attackers in. They had a tough job ahead of them. Batteries of German cannon and machine guns, perched on the cliffs and hidden in caves, could turn an enfilading fire on the beaches, which bristled with barbed wire. From deep fortifications further inland artillery could lay down a curtain of fire offshore. Along new military roads and railways German reinforcements could be swiftly concentrated against the attackers (see p. 29). After the assault and occupation would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Rehearsal | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

They learned to brush their teeth, wash their faces, shave and rinse out socks in two inches of water in a mess kit. The mention of British service biscuits brought wry smiles to their faces. Said one hardy biscuit eater: "You could dunk them in water and they'd soak it up all right. Then they'd be just as hard as ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: First to Fight the Germans | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Into U.S.O. fund headquarters in Logansport, Ind., fortnight ago, came two hot, weary young Americans wearing the blue-grey uniform of the R.A.F. One of them, decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross, carried a barracks bag; the other, badly in need of a shave, had only his empty pipe for duffle. Could they get a meal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Logansport's Lions | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John Doe of philosophy and religion"). He will encounter such sharp or strange anonymities as the Polish proverb "God can shave without soap" or this definition of a suffragette (circa 1906): "One who has ceased to be a lady and not yet be come a gentleman." Of course there are omissions. Francis I's gallant "All is lost save honor" is quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Book to End Books | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...even give him time to shave. They hustled him off to New Haven, charged him with sedition. In a Silver Shirt magazine, The Galilean, two months after Pearl Harbor, Pelley had written: "The typical American . . . gloats when any of the Axis powers reports success abroad-even against our own forces." Pinched, he pouted: "There hasn't been a damn thing in the magazine that Boake Carter, 'Ironpants' Johnson, Father Coughlin and many others haven't also said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUSTICE: Milquetoast Gets Muscles | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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