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...worm-turned-dragon finally went too far: he set the train on fire. As the flames crept forward, the driver unhitched the engine, sped up the line for police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL,ARGENTINA,MEXICO: Revolt | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

While the western Allies cut toward the head and heart of the dying German dragon, the Red Army sliced up into its belly. Austria, the land whence Adolf Hitler sprang, was invaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: Into the Belly | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...this is all to the good. By slighting its frail claims to be taken seriously, the play can be indulgently enjoyed as a gaiters-and-crinoline version of the princess, the knight and the dragon. The real Robert Browning can be assumed somewhere else while an immensely dashing impersonator (Brian Aherne) knocks Miss Barrett and her matinee following for a loop. The real and highly pathological Father Barrett can continue to interest psychiatrists while the stage article (McKay Morris) gets himself roundly hated and mentally hissed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Play In Manhattan, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

Eddie "Commandah" Rinetti was greatly relieved to find "Hotshot Charley" safe in Sunday's paper. So glad was be in fact, that "Piggy" decided to write his girl--a resident of California--about the whole mattah and ask her if she thought the Dragon Lady was being true to Pat. We haven't got the full details, but the absence of Rolain's name in the rag every week doesn't mean we aren't evening him with suspicion. His fans may be interested to know that Bruno "the Bruiser" Tiz has taken a fancy to hog calling in hopes...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 4/3/1945 | See Source »

Radio Berlin grew boastful. It described spokes of dragon's teeth, pillboxes and larger fortifications around the capital. Loudspeakers proclaimed that the city's bombed ruins had been turned into a gun-studded fortress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: EASTERN FRONT: The Marshal Waits | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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