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...quick. They have to take the standard three hours a week of physical training, in addition to their hour and a half of daily football practice. Says Cadet Glenn Davis: "I never used to think about taking a daylight nap. Now I get sleepy every time I see a sofa." The two breaks that the 38-man football squad gets over the other 2,500 Cadets are: 1) a seat at the training table, where steaks and ice cream are more fre quent; 2) an occasional chance to leave barracks in the evening to visit the locker room and nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Army's Super-Dupers | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Atomic bombs are small enough to be hidden inside "a grand piano, a chest of drawers, of sofa," asserted Ridenour. The spying and intelligence work needed to prevent the erection of such mines in our cities would "render everyday peaceful life all but intolerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAVANTS SEEK INTERNATIONAL ATOM CONTROL | 11/2/1945 | See Source »

Kempka said that Guensche had found the two bodies in Hitler's shelter. Hitler was shot through the head; a 7.65-mm. Walther pistol was on the floor beside him. Eva was shot through the heart; a 6.35-mm. pistol was beside her on a sofa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Where There's Smoke . . . | 7/2/1945 | See Source »

...fellow-Trotter. Startled when a luminous dog tears through the night woods, he runs afoul of the local Jukes family, whose name is Fleagle. While he twitches around among cattle skulls in the uninviting Fleagle living room, and snags his hand in the twanging spring of a devastated sofa, Mamie Fleagle Johnson (Marjorie Main) assassinates flies with a bull whip, and her third husband, a mad scientist (Porter Hall), suggests that perhaps he'd better knock together another coffin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 18, 1945 | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

...Braun, Hitler's blonde friend, was seated at a table, writing. Hitler fidgeted on a sofa. Hitler asked the bodyguard about casualties outside the Chancellery, where the fighting was heavy. Then he began a harangue, his voice ringing above the noise of battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: As Long As I Live ... | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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