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One night in Plymouth the team converted 34 Navy male nurses. Next night Commandos visited a dance hall, danced with the girls, converted the pianist (female), then eleven of the dancers. Last week, after campaign's end, Plymouth's Commandos could count 400 signed "decision cards" reading: "Trusting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

There is nothing wrong with the story that wasn't wrong in the first place. The bum (John Garfield) still chances in at the roadside eatery, gets one good eyeful of the sex-starved wife (Lana Turner) of the lardy, trusting proprietor (Cecil Kellaway), who bought her underprivileged soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

Japanese nightcrawlers, toward the end of the war, often crawled in vain. They would sneak toward U.S. lines, trusting the friendly night. Then out of the silent darkness, a well-aimed bullet would pick them off. Could U.S. snipers see in the dark? Last week, the Army said yes and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electronic Peeping Tom | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

This salty chantey of a too-trusting maid and her love-'em-& -leave-'em sailor was a favorite barroom ballad of World War I. Wherever servicemen gathered, it was sung with gusto-provided no ladies were present.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Bell Bottoms | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

Three-Group Struggle. All these complicated factors have led to a great struggle in China between three main groups, although not as acute now perhaps as it was last fall-I think we may be around the corner. First is a group of Chinese who are completely disillusioned regarding the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: OUR ALLY CHINA | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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