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...Seventh Air Force struck from runways somewhere in the Central Pacific; they may have used Tarawa's air strip. The bomb doses were small (15 to 40 tons in two of four Army raids). Resistance was light: 20 Zeros appeared over Mili atoll, tried (and failed) to slap the raiders with anti-bomber bombs dropped from above in the German manner. In smaller force, Navy patrol bombers snooped the islands. But the blow that really caught the Japs in the Marshalls with their kimonos off, was a pile-driving carrier raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Paradise into Hell | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...Private Down." But PM's honest editor John P. Lewis admitted that his mail was running almost 5-to-1 against the paper's high-blood-pressure cry for a court-martial. And from Mishawaka, Ind., Casketmaker Herman F. Kuhl, father of one of Patton's slapped soldiers, wrote his Congressman, forgiving the slap and promoting the slapper's pro motion. The prevailing Congressional opinon was that Patton, exactly like any other soldier, should stay where his superiors considered him most effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patton and Truth | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...noisy faculty teaches I Dug a Ditch, assisted by comely Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable in Let There Be Music. Senor Iturbi, forced by the curious exigencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1943 | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall of Man: "If you wanted to dissuade a man from drinking his tenth whisky, you would slap him on the back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orthodoxologist | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Today Harry Ruby, one of Hollywood's busiest men, has shifted most of his attention from songwriting to comedy scripts, has turned out such slap-happy scenarios as the Marx Brothers' Horse Feathers, Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Eddie Cantor's The Kid from Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Loony Lieder | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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