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...evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota's votes listen to his tireless speechmaking with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eighteenth Year | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...excellent physical trim. The magnitude of the gamble has not outwardly affected him. His health is robust, his sleep undisturbed. It is the kind of conditioning all soldiers must achieve, or blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Supreme Commander | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...passed two German officers headed along to our prison stockade, passed a column of young dandies on bicycles, a young Italian bridal couple, the bride trim and shapely in a grey suit adorned by a bright nosegay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: From Rome to ... | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...contrary, WAVES thrive of plenty of exercise and outdoor life manage to keep in trim despite plenty of Navy chow, and never meet an enemy Jap except behind bars. They could probably throw him for a loop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tell Your Girl to Join, Says WAVE | 5/23/1944 | See Source »

Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: She Fixes Me Fine | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

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