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On a 6,000-ft. mountain far in the north the "Jmghpaw Elders of the United States Army"* gathered to celebrate. These Kachin tribesmen, armed with everything from bazookas to an issue of 500 good-as-new Civil War muskets, had taken Uncle Sam's 30? a day and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Southward in Burma | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Dirt and Starvation. Like her three sisters (one, Eleanor, used to be Warden of Vassar), tall, vigorous Khaki Dodge is lively, enterprising, hard to discourage. Arriving in Greece late last autumn to be chief medical officer for the headquarters district of the Military Government, she found herself persona non grata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bostonian in Greece | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

President Arévalo. His enemies had whispered that he was pro-Argentine because of his long exile in Argentina. So the "strike" featured Gaucho costumes. With a syrupy Argentine accent, a student representing the President wooed a girl named "Guayaba" (tropical fruit, slang for the Presidency). When Guayaba hiked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Student Spree | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

Please don't hide behind the skirts of "optional spelling,"" because the only permissible variations are 1) substitution for euphony of s for the fifth pair of Is (letters 40 and 41); and 2) ti or ty for dy (letters 44 and 45).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 12, 1945 | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

The response is tremendous. Servicemen shower her with grass skirts and invasion money; they cable money for yellow roses; they write that she is "romantic and groovey" and "my ideal." One fan, irresistibly reminded of his wife, requested that Jill simply say: "The mashed potatoes are ready."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Jill | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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