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...while, before they were run down and killed, Japs ran in & out of U.S. tents and huts in shouting disorder. In the twilight, some slipped away and organized themselves into groups which had to be cleaned out later. A few held out in revetments until week's end. All in all, they wrought little damage but they made plenty of confusion, caused some casualties and lost the GIs a lot of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Desanters | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...Polish lieutenant, made his way into Warsaw. A student before the war, cheerful, optimistic, he had escaped from a train bound for a German work camp. A weird, funereal light lay over the city and suburbs. The mind of Poland had been shaken by disaster, and in a twilight of reason, people moved half automatically, midway between life & death. They stalked along the roads sightlessly, as if hypnotized; they held themselves stiffly, as if all their will power was needed to keep them from collapse. They prayed and scattered flowers on the mass graves like the one that had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Impersonal Adventure | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Says Calumet Farm's Trainer Ben Jones: "Next to Whirlaway, this is the best horse I ever trained. She's so much better than Lawrin and Pensive [both Kentucky Derby winners]. So much, really." Last week at Baltimore, racing under her official program name, Twilight Tear, she made a rompaway of the winner-take-all ($25,000) Pimlico Special. It was her 14th win in 17 tries this year, and brought her winnings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweet Susie | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...Jacob and other distinguished prisoners of the Germans to Japan by submarine. There they would be held as hostages in case Allied threats to bring Nazi war criminals to trial meant business. Behind these schemes stirred the shadow of the Feme, once more emerging from the twilight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Die Feme . | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

...long-awaited Year Books one of the most novel and worthy ideas other than the concensus that Berna Tool oughta bagga head of the past six months has been suggested by the Battalion idea-man, and bride-groom-to-be, Jock Brunner. Jock proposes that when the long twilight of senility and retirement descends upon our new effervescent lives and we look not to the future, but back upon our glorious past, we will, as is customary, hearken back to the days we spent here at Harvard. In any relationship in which a group of human beings live together...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 10/6/1944 | See Source »

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