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Nowadays, U.S. troops in England even kid one another about their medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2,000,000 decorations had been bestowed on Soviet heroes. The Rus-sian Army has seen a lot more fighting than the U.S. Army, but in proportion to estimated size, this is at least eight times as much kudos as the U.S. Army has distributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Debasing the Kudos? | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...archconservative National Academy, who first showed his Piatigorsky last year at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum. In the past, Carnegie judges have sometimes recognized painting of decided originality, such as Peter Blume's South of Scranton. This year's safe & sane first choice prompted one observer to wisecrack: "The judges may know a lot about art, but do they know what they like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Piatigorsky in Pittsburgh | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...this might very well be the last laugh at Willow Run's expense; no longer may aviation experts be able to wisecrack: "Willit Run?" Eleven months after the first bomber was put together, Willow Run finally seemed to be really under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over the Hump at Willow Run? | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff gal who will cavort in usual Burma fashion, wisecrack as lustily as the Army-version Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sub for Burma | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...always kept five dollars in nickels so he could buy everybody cokes in the wardroom after evening general quarters. He could play badminton on the hangar deck better than anyone else. He had better luck at Bingo in the ready room than anyone else. There was always a wisecrack on his tongue, but he was a flyer's flyer. George Stokely, his radio man and gunner, called him "the crazy flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Hornet's Sting | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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