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...experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance on ice, how to skate, spin and jump on a rink six feet square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Swanee Snow Bird | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Well, having been flushed to the surface, I might as well sing, spill the goods, come clean. Here's the full inside story, and the SERVICE NEWS is beating Pegler, Clapper, and Drew Pearson to it: Yale men have secretly banded together in order to wipe out for once and for all the Crimson Menace. Operating strictly under order from the Blue Square in New Haven, I revealed the intolerable conditions in the Ha'v'd Ya'd and got a DSC and a shiny new yo-yo from the PBY committee (Pour le Bettrement de Yale), Fifth Column Division...

Author: By S/sgt. GEORGE Avakian, | Title: SPECIALISTS' CORNER | 8/27/1943 | See Source »

...attack was three-pronged, striking at Massacre Bay, Holtz Bay and Blind Cove. As the lighters pressed on the beaches at Massacre Bay to spill their cargoes of men, tanks and artillery, there was no sign of the enemy except for sporadic machine-gun fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ALEUTIANS: Victory on Attu | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Washington last week hurried Colonel Frederick Smith, deputy chief of staff of MacArthur's Fifth Air Force, fresh from the Pacific theater with a lot of information and permission to spill some of it. This was his estimate of Jap air power there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Introducing the Hap | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...lick Fred Sullens, editor of the Jackson Daily Liar," Sullens Page-Oned: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Southern Scorcher | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

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