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The newspaperman in the film (Robert Young) meets Margaret when she arrives at a London refuge for orphaned children. She stands stiffly, a strange little figure with a tall stocking cap, the shell of a magnesium (incendiary) bomb slung on a cord around her neck, ceaselessly rubbing her dry eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

In a small fishing village in German-occupied Brittany, German N.C.O. Hans Holle returned late at night from a visit to a French trull. Impudently he waved a black cotton stocking at Frenchmen he met on the dark roads. Next morning Gay Dog Hans was found dead, a bullet in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

When the WPB realignment loomed Secretary Knox called up Hiland Batcheller in Pittsburgh, told him a Government plane would be there at noon to take him to Washington. The reason for this urgency was not hard to guess. Batcheller as president of Allegheny-Ludlum Steel Corp. is head of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Out of the Top Drawer | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Moody. Usually gremlins are about a foot high. They wear soft, pointed suede shoes (occasionally spats), tight green breeches, red jackets with a ruffle at the neck and stocking caps or flat-topped tricorn hats with a jaunty feather. They behave fairly well when pilots are flying their planes properly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: It's Them | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Stems. In Washington, Mrs. Bruce Baird, wife of a banker, got the better of the silk shortage. Whenever a stocking went to pieces she embroidered a flower on the hole, a stem down the run.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

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