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...Sleet-bearded Philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 51, plumped for polygamy as a solution of his country's preponderance of women (2,000,000 surplus): "I, for example, like the company of different women for different purposes-one to go out to dinner with, another to go to church with, another to cook for me, another to mother me, another to play games with, and another to make love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Second Day Back. Dawn brought leaden skies, sleet that soon turned into a light, lazy snowfall. The temperature stood at 27°, the barometer fell slowly. Captain Joe shook his head. With his own rough brand of respect for God, he said: "They think they're going to get through this river before it's time. But they don't know that it's the Old Man who's running the navigating up here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Captain Joe & the Old Man | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

...bearded hills were heavy with wet and the rain and sleet gathered great churning white heads and came roaring down. Swollen rivers rose first in the Pittsburgh industrial regions, then in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: War and High Water | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...506th Parachute Battalion marched 115 miles through Georgia last week in three days. The battalion slogged through fog, rain, sleet and hail, over soggy fields and concrete highways. They carried full equipment, including machine guns. Some fell out with sore feet. Even they got congratulations from their commander, Colonel Robert Sink. Said he: "When you fell, you fell face forward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - When You Fall . . . | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Tailored by Tunesmith Irving Berlin for the suave, sleepy voice of Cinemactor Bing Crosby, this song (from Paramount's Holiday Inn) originally expressed the longing for sleet and ice of an Easterner marooned among the palm trees of Hollywood. But with thousands of U.S. servicemen facing snowless Christmases from North Africa to Guadalcanal, White Christmas has unexpectedly become the first big sentimental song hit of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: White Christmas | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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