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Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape to Maine | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...Cromwell, runs the establishment. But after Nugget turns up Tacey moves to the copper town of Bisbee, Ariz., where she hopes to leave her "sporting" life behind her, to marry Gaye and make a home for Nugget. The family circle is completed when a miner is killed and his wildcat daughter, Seely, is taken in by Tacey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quality Not Quantity | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

This week U.S. warships again moved in, blew up ammunition the Jap had just landed on Guadalcanal's northwest tip. The Jap retaliated by sending 40 planes at Henderson Field. Grumman Wildcat fighters clawed down 19 of them, lost only two of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Guadalcanal's Week | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...Grumman F 4 F (Wildcat). The Navy's standard fighter, as of today, the F 4 F is unquestionably the best carrier fighter now in battle service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: A Report to the People | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: No Peace in the Solomons | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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