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...equipment and ammunition. Later the Russians opened their communal food center to the Canadians. Enthusiastic Major Murdoch reported: "We tasted such delicacies as borsch and cranberry pie for the first time, and were regaled on steaks hung till they were so tender they could have been eaten with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: ARCTIC REGION: Spitsbergen Party | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Another Patty Berg? | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...Palestine, Tex., a trusty in the jail made a key from a spoon handle. It fitted most of the building's doors but he used it only on the liquor vault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 22, 1941 | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Fortnight ago, threatening his own and still other resignations, Censorship Head Sir Walter Monckton asked the Cabinet to do three things: 1) have the Ministry rather than the Foreign Office direct over seas news and propaganda; 2) give the Ministry direct access to news sources in stead of spoon-feeding it with handouts; 3) give the Ministry authority to release news. Said the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle of Bloomsbury | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

...laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Not Very Good, Jeeves | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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