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...Division was battling for a summit 502 feet high when the enemy gave an assist. Jap artillery shelled Jap troops at the top. When the error was dis covered, and the fire lifted, the Japs on the peak were stunned and the 7th Division veterans were able to swarm all over them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Big Apple | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...Lieut. Linda Barnes drove her car to a garage, found the trouble was simply a bird's nest and three eggs on the motor block. In Los Angeles, Jessie Sachs's motor continued to hum after the ignition was turned off; under the hood was a busy swarm of bees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 21, 1945 | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the President: "Oh, fiddlesticks. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Talk & Action | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

...compares Japanese society to a hive, the Emperor to the queen bee. There comes a time when the queen is thrust out. The hive follows her to its new home. "It was not the queen which made the decision; yet, if one were to remove the queen from the swarm, the hive would disintegrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The God-Emperor | 5/21/1945 | See Source »

Yordan's experiments, so far, are at once vigorous and surefire: he believes in hard, straight storytelling, draws richly on and writes skillfully for deep-city folk of the kind that swarm North Side Chicago's Wilson Avenue, where he grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 7, 1945 | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

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