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They slept on the stone floor, ate rice and stringy meat, had to bow to Jap soldiers. Sometimes the soldiers slapped the Dutchmen in the face and stamped on their feet. The Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BEWARE, THERE IS AMERICA | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

Before they said their farewells, the 19th's men danced in the officers' mess with wives and girls, dined on "snaggletooth Texas steer whose rump is stamped 'Suzy-Q, approved,'" and toasted each other at the new Pyote Officers' Club. On the stroke of midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Last Parade | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

No marks will be handed out verbally at 3 University Hall, as panting students have already found out. The only way that upperclassmen may receive their grades is to leave a stamped, self-addressed postcard there with his courses written on it. After the marks have been entered, the card...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Addressed Postcards Must Be Left to Obtain Marks | 2/2/1943 | See Source »

Censorship. Most of the correspondents are with the Allied forward units in Tunisia. They write their dispatches and have them censored in the field, then send them by courier to "AF HQ" at Algiers. Dispatches are stamped "censored at source," wait their turn for cable space, are then sent to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Delays Explained | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

But it wasn't primarily Massachusetts Hall, Plympton Street, Professor Frisky and other permanent fixtures; it was rather the people he had met. The big guy peeping out happily from under a pile of papers and cuddling his vodka, the other one getting yanked out of a Quadrangle tree by...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

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