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Already the individual exploits of some of Jimmy Doolittle's flyers had been recorded. In a brush with the French they lost two Spitfires (one pilot was saved), downed three Dewoitines. Lieut. Colonel F. M. Dean destroyed five French tanks near the interior Algerian airdrome of Sidi-bel-Abbès. Lieut. Thomas Taylor attacked a gun post near Oran, got two bullets in his plane, then got a tank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Job for Jimmy | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Unable to hold their dramatic yearnings in check, the Freshman class at Radcliffe will blossom out with a oneact play at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the auditorium at Agassiz Hall. The piece is called "Night Club," adapted from a short story by Katharine Brush, and will feature a couple of dozen '46 butterflies in long, low evening gowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Freshmen to Play in "Night club" at Agassiz | 11/13/1942 | See Source »

...velocity, long-range weapons, had been trained to wait too long. But they soon learned better, and Fortresses knocked down at least 48 German fighters in one battle over France last month (TIME, Oct. 19). Now the Germans apparently are also learning: they lost only nine fighters in a brush with U.S. bombers last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Heavy-Gunned Dreadnought | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...desire to meet the mathematics requirements for commissions in the Navy can brush up with a course on trigonometry by Frank J. Herlihy of the Boston school department, which meets in Sever Hall on Friday evenings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTENSION WILL OFFER FOOD SERVICE COURSE | 10/27/1942 | See Source »

...Douglas MacArthur puts the Stars & Stripes back up there. . . . And . . . Sessue . . . that music you're hearing is our theme, the old Star-Spangled Banner . . . you remember that . . . and when it gets to the 'Oh say can you see' part . . . Sessue . . . you take off your hat and brush a tear from your eye . . . whether you've got one there or not . . . because you're sorry . . . Sessue . . . sorry you're a Jap. Then we fade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood at War | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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