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...story of radio's slickest war role was told for the first time this week by Czech-born film director Hans H. Burger (Crisis) in the New York Times. As an Army intelligence sergeant, he was the chief military writer and editor for Operation Annie, a psychological warfare project of the Twelfth Army Group during the war's last five months. Annie's objective: to win the enemy's confidence by giving him aid & comfort, the better to dupe him later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Operation Annie | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Besides accounting for four of the quintet's six points on fouls, Gray's general floor work and play making was his slickest in the team's last few games. Though he scored 22 points himself, his all-around play was good for at least 20 more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Whips Northeastern 82-25 As Jayvees Top Dummer Academy | 2/15/1946 | See Source »

...night before election day it rained 3.07 inches in Crosby, North Dakota. Next day rain still fell. In many a western county, where North Dakota farmers were isolated by impassable mud, no vote was cast. This was the best possible weather for Gerald P. Nye, the slickest isolationist in the U.S. Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTIONS: Good Weather for Nye | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Congress. The Congressman may be a woman. That the new Congressman will be a Negro is almost certain, because a newly carved Congressional District will include all of Harlem and not much else. But if the woman candidate is to win, she will have to beat one of the slickest spellbinders Harlem has ever produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Harlem Choice | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...Cubans' ball-handling was about the slickest ever seen in Manhattan's packed and cheering Madison Square Garden. Basketbol shares Cuban sporting fervor with beisbol and boxeo. The season lasts seven months on outdoor, wooden courts. It took Havana's team only ten minutes to get their indoor bearings. From then on split-vision faking and passing kept them always in the lead. The "Caballeros of the Caribbean" go home after two more games: with Canisius at Buffalo early this week, and with Temple at Philadelphia on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Too Good Neighbors | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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