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...better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile area north of Sierck in the hope of landing one on Nazi field headquarters, believed to be somewhere near Castle Thorn. The French withdrawal from the Warndt Forest was effected four days before the Germans learned of it and was performed chiefly to escape flood waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Minuet | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

PINKHAM NOTCH, N. H.--Out of the teeth of the worst autumn blizzard in Mount Washington's recent history, a girl and two youths trudged today, alive and well, to confound forest rangers who had given them only "one chance in a million" to survive...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 10/24/1939 | See Source »

...present membership is four but formerly it was five, one of the girls being expelled from college shortly after the academic year began. The present members of the quartet are Miss Deedo Forest '41, Miss Jeane League '41, Miss Katharine Marrs, of the Smith School of Architecture, and Miss Slote...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Form Novel Club And Date Bureau | 10/20/1939 | See Source »

...great Warndt Forest," forming a "huge pocket into French territory," accounted for over half of the total square mileage: 15 miles wide by eight miles deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Inches, Not Miles | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Irene Castle McLaughlin, longtime plaintiff in a divorce suit against Major Frederic McLaughlin, petitioned that their daughter Barbara, 14, be removed from Ferry Hall school in Lake Forest, Ill. (Alma Mater of Jean Harlow), transferred to an eastern school. She testified: "I visited Ferry Hall last spring and was disappointed by the class of girls there. Some of them dyed their hair. . . . One day recently, I asked Barbara to come and see me and she said she couldn't because they were going to have steak for dinner." Steak or no steak, the court ruled that Barbara should stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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