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Even the big business of pulverizing Aachen could not keep American whittling-fingers from gadgeteering. When Army engineers on the ridge outside the town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks...
The dates and dinner arrangements were all through the courtesy of Miss Inglis, and the boys say they couldn't have been more delightful. Back in Cambridge, they had ham and eggs at one of the girls' homes with more dancing in stocking feet. Next week they have dates for...
One Day Farther. The army was quiet-the Chinese quiet of men who are not suffering acutely but merely bearing the bitterness of decades one day farther up the road. The soldiers were wiry and brown with the sun. Their rifles were old, their clothes threadbare. Each of them carried...
To Japanese, cherry blossoms are the "symbols of the supreme beauty of sacrifice." The Japanese, he declares, never feel at home in "the ugly and incongruous West ern chapel," or "even in a fine Gothic church." He recommends that future Christian churches in Japan be built in "the shrine form...
The reasons for this sudden flowering are two : 1 ) retailers, cramped by wartime shortages, are stocking practically any thing; 2) small record companies, formerly devoted to such specialties as race songs or Elizabethan madrigals, have taken advantage of the Petrillo feud with Victor and Columbia (TIME, Dec. 6, 1943, et...