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...attitude, plus the pidgin English system of communication, brought both fright and embarrassment to a U.S. fighter pilot who had a forced landing. Two naked black men with rifles popped up, disarmed him and made signs for him to put his hands up. Stepping back, the pilot tapped his chest impressively and said: "Me American!" Replied one of the Abos: "Well, why didn't you say so? We thought you might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: Neutrality in Our Time | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...suite in a midtown Manhattan hotel and rented villas in Hollywood. He has a high giggle, a flamboyant taste for red ties and pink-striped shirts. Horowitz' great absorption outside music is his magnificent collection of snuffboxes assembled from over the world. He keeps them in a large chest of drawers, laid out with geometrical precision on a lining of green silk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Vladimir of Kiev | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...could be seen last week. It consisted of some amazing X-ray transparencies. Each one appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Needles from Haystacks | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Fascism's Labor Day came & went in Italy last week with scarcely a ripple of celebration. Duce Mussolini, who in bet ter days was wont to show himself barechested, building walls in the former Pontine Marshes, was chest-deep in other, less healthy labor. For the second time in a fortnight he shook up his Party leader ship. Tunisia was on his mind. So was his slowly crumbling Blackshirt State. A new generation of resistance was gathering its strength in Italy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The New Generation | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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