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Only one ashtray remains (chained and marked "Booby Trap"), and one roommate had his shirt torn off his back by admiring readers of the SERVICE NEWS. He managed to get back the buttons and one pocket by offering to autograph the strips...

Author: By S SGT. George avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 8/10/1943 | See Source »

...never before, the Russians threaten the citadel from the east (see col. 2). The Allies move upon it, though slowly, by land and by air from the west and the south. In the end, inner Europe cannot be a citadel for the Germans. It can only be a trap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After Mussolini, Who? | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...salient seemed doomed. If it fell and if the Red Army also succeeded in liquidating the Belgorod salient, the Russians would be free to make the move the Germans probably feared most -a push southward toward the Sea of Azov, which would cut off the industrial Donets basin and trap large German forces. If this operation could be executed, the great westward march would be under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: No Zapad | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Warren's many fireplaces are in the least alike. Warren's taste for the unusual is also shown in the trap door which leads to a blank tunnel beneath the second floor, the secret stairway which is shown on the House blueprints but which is as yet undiscovered, the bedroom, in which the master's bed is separated from the remainder of the room by a sliding wall, and the peep-holes above the stairway on the second floor from which he could decide whether or not to admit guests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH PROFS LABOR AMIDST PERFECT GANGSTERS' HIDEOUT | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

Today conferees sit solemnly in the real part of the wall where the master's bedroom was, and the false wall hangs perilously over their heads. Today an English A student will walk unknowingly over the trap door, or wonder at the filled in peop-holes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH PROFS LABOR AMIDST PERFECT GANGSTERS' HIDEOUT | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

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