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Lampy's other more vulnerable Ibis, Arthur W. Viner '42, returning at dawn from one of his customary all night excursions, replied when asked for a statement: "..... it; we .... well are going to get those ..... of ..... and when we do we'll obscenity in the milk of their obscenity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Famed Ibis on Top of Lampoon Building Vanishes During Night | 5/13/1941 | See Source »

...dawn one day last month the British submarine Regent slipped past mine fields into the harbor of Cattaro and ran up her largest white ensign. Much to the surprise of Lieut. Commander Peter Joseph Howell Bartlett, the harbor was full of Italian warships. The commander sent his mate to call on the Italian commanding officer. The mate explained that the Regent had come to look for Britain's Minister to Yugoslavia Ronald Ian Campbell, requested permission to search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Courtesy of the Port | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

April 6. At dawn the Germans attacked northern Greece in five spearheads. Three divisions of Greeks defended that area, and it was intended that they should delay the Germans as much as possible, then retire in order behind Salonika to the main Anglo-Greek force. This plan was disrupted by Yugoslav weakness, which was due to troop dispositions which had been made for political rather than military reasons by the pre-coup, pro-German Government of Dragisha Cvetkovitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: The Whole Story | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...Norman Krasna (Bachelor Mother), is no equal of The Ghost. Occasional touches-word of La Dietrich's honky-tonk past conveyed from ear to ear at her introduction to New Orleans' society, a wedding gown floating mysteriously down the Mississippi, shutters opening drowsily on the quay at dawn-give proof that Clair is still there. But the rest is without much imagination or invention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 12, 1941 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

Next job was a landing party exercise. The newfangled combat teams (chief components: infantry and artillery) were piled on to the big transports and the attack forces (secret in arms and organization) loaded on the speedy ex-destroyers. One sunset the whole fleet sailed over the horizon. At dawn it was seizing a beach head on another Caribbean island. The First was gone a month on its full-scale exercise. Units of the Atlantic Fleet worked with them. Admiral Ernest Joseph King looked his approval as the landing parties were called away and the bronzed, hornyhanded sea soldiers went over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: General Smith Does a Job | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

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