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This group of international nudists included British aristocrats, "but it was by no means aristocratic: it was 'fashionable,' a very different thing. The gleaming red fingernails and smooth white flanks of the lady opposite you might indicate a present status, but they did not authenticate a past . . . the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Home to the Wars | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

Two Planes. The Army's standard equipment is the mobile X-ray unit, of which the Medical Corps has more than 3,000 (cost: $2,380 each). The outfit, consisting of an X-ray machine, a generator, a tent darkroom and a table for patients, is carried in three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Un-haystacking a Needle | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

The Russians advanced. They staggered forward, blinded by snow and bending over their green-lit compasses. In the forests they felt for tree trunks for guidance and support. Their frozen greatcoats crackled like splitting boards. When the Russians reached the napping defenders far east of Kursk, they charged and quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: How Many Rivers to Cross? | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

The Japanese love night work. At sea their infiltrations to Guadalcanal were nearly all by night, and the fact that Japan has been beaten in most of the great night battles is probably due to superior U.S. detection equipment and gunnery. Almost invariably the Japanese launch their land attacks at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: How Japs Fight | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

In the middle of the bare floor was a pile of trunks and boxes, neatly scaled and with tags and stickers announcing their destination. Vag pulled off his gloves, methodically, with his teeth, and slid his hands into his pockets. He looked around him slowly at the rectangular islands of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

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