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When the division moved to Luzon, there were new terms: for every live Jap, one case of beer and a three-day pass to Manila. Sergeant Brown took a prisoner in a cave by persuading him to discard his hara-kiri grenade and come out. Then Brown picked up his beer and went to Manila...
...haziness about life in England was cleared up by a visit to Cambridge, Princeton University had an idea. It began conducting weekend courses for groups of British and Dominion servicemen and women stationed in the U.S. Last week the 15th such group left Princeton's campus after a three-day closeup of U.S. opinion, culture, labor, politics, hospitality. The general student reaction: the U.S. is easier to understand and much more likable than its press, radio and cinema have led foreigners to believe...
First, he had a three-day visit from Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, rumored to be the President's choice for chairman of the conference. What the President and the Prime Minister discussed was not disclosed in detail, but it was certain that the conference got more discussion than Neighbor King's home political affairs, about which Franklin Roosevelt had a few kind words to say (see CANADA...
...trouble had been on its way ever since December, when zero weather and blizzards and a manpower shortage first snarled up the overloaded railroads and disrupted fuel deliveries. The three-day embargo, clamped on all non-Government freight in the East, had helped (TIME, Feb. 5). But it was not enough. Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation clamped on another, this time for four days. Coal was the only civilian freight that could be moved...
...jail for life, with confiscation of property and a fine of 3,000,000 leva ($36,000 at prewar rates), went Bulgaria's last war Premier, Konstantin Muravieff, Agrarian and liberal, who landed Bulgaria in a three-day war with Russia while trying to remain neutral. Forty-nine Deputies received jail terms...