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Recruit Wanted. In Philadelphia, an aircraft-carrier crew searched in vain for a mascot - all available monkeys were either too young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Several homebound B-29s made emergency landings on Iwo Jima's hastily repaired southern airfield. The Marines who had given their lives to win Iwo had not died in vain. Only two B-29s were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Despot, dictator, lunatic, gangster-with these words Yenan last week resumed its political critique of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, after almost a year of vain negotiations between Chungking and the Chinese Communists. The words fell thick and fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Barrage | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

...looks in vain," says Bowers, "for any convincing evidence that Jefferson availed himself of fine ladies . . . but had he done so he would have been . . . reticent and discreet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grave Youth | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Being not vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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