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...Italians swear that Hitler, not Mussolini, ordered that the executions be filmed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Death in the Morning | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

Tube Talk. In Manhattan, the German language newspaper Aufbau, conducting a department to teach refugees American manners, received a reader query: "If I feel insulted by a rude person - in the subway, for instance - what should I do? I can't very well begin to swear at him." The answer: "Certainly not. You just give him a dirty look, and you say, 'Really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 22, 1944 | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

...supporter and confidante to whom Ubico undoubtedly looked for comfort was a remarkable woman named Julita Quiñones. Officially, she is at the head of a Government bureau in charge of meals and supplies for public schools. Actually, she wields power in scale with her bulk (Guatemalans swear that she is 6 ft. 7 in. tall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: La Maciste | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...small island covered with heather and dotted with red-roofed, green-shuttered houses. In Cairo last week R.A.F. spokesmen told about the advance post maintained on the island. Its occupants: U.S. and British forces working hand in glove with Partisan natives. All the islanders old enough to talk swear by Marshal Tito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE BALKANS: Island Eye | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...club was organized: The Protective Order of Moles. To share the deep wine cellar in a limestone cliff, one must swear that he had been driven to the molehill by a "Whistling Willie" or "Jerry, the Bomb Dropper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Settled Front | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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