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Chapman succeeded fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, who tossed in the towel after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chapman's Chance | 7/9/1945 | See Source »

...stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nazis' New Broom? | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...year her stories have been entertaining Bostonians, so well that at times they drew as many as 300 responses, a considerable number of them from grownups. Sample story ingredients: a milk bottle, a violin, and a rake; a jockey, some snow, and a duck. Next week: an egg, a towel, and a light-all about an egg that almost cracks under the strain of modern living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stories About Eggs & Things | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...Minister would ask the Prime Minister to relieve him of his job. But that possibility could not be ruled out. Said the Ottawa Journal: "Many experts [believe] that McNaughton won't answer the bell [for the next round], that Mackenzie King . . . will advise him to throw in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE DOMINION: Tough War for the General | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Towel Too. By the end of the day, when the war birds homed to their carriers, columns of smoke towered 7,000 feet over Tokyo's airfields. Mitscher's boys call this treatment the "Mitscher shampoo." Next day, they were at it again, but there were fewer parked aircraft, and many loosed their bombs and bullets at inviting fixed targets: an aircraft factory and three engine plants. Along the waterfront were floating targets, choicest of all in Navy flyers' estimation: they sank a destroyer, two destroyer escorts, a freighter and many coastal craft; an escort carrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Mitscher Shampoo | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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