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...Nobile. Nobile had been combing remote districts of South America for years, picking up scraps of primitive music and processing them into tunes for the swank dance halls of Buenos Aires. By last week his adaptation of Santa Marta had broken the sheet-music records of Buenos Aires' Tin Pan Alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: South American Smash | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Saipan. The shipping shortage and the necessity of supplying battles farther west permit only the barest necessities (even for Saipan's American conquerors, who still eat out of cans). For the captive civilians the only cover is what can be built out of weathered planks, battered sheet tin from the bomb-shattered sugar refinery, and tattered tenting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: At Camp Susupe | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

Religion. Camp Susupe's makeshift Buddhist "temple" has a tin roof, no front wall, but its priest has all his trappings. Shinto (Emperor worship) poses more of a problem in religious freedom-thus far, U.S. authorities have made no attempt to stop Shintoism, but no facilities have been set up to encourage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OCCUPATION: At Camp Susupe | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...front of Bloody Nose ridge on Peleliu. a Marine colonel fretted in his command post-a piece of tin under a poncho which shaded him from the sun. He worried the end of a frazzled cigaret, surveyed the field before him with hard, bloodshot eyes. For many days his regiment had been fighting it out in this sector against Jap troops dug into the limestone face of the ridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES,OCCUPATION,SUPPLY: Man of War | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Curious Course. Ten years ago Chucho Reyes set up a school in Guadalajara to train local children in painting, sculpture, bookbinding, glass blowing, dramatic writing, silver and tin work. Reyes himself knew nothing of these techniques, hired no teachers, ran the school in highly unacademic fashion. ("That is why they made such pretty things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mexico's Chucho | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

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