Word: frontierisms
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...right behind them, to help reopen TIME's Berlin Office, closed since June 1941 when our last correspondent there locked its door and caught the train for Basel to telephone us the true story of Hitler's break with Stalin from the uncensored side of the Swiss frontier...
Commander Frederick W. Hesser, SC, USN, Executive Officer of the Supply School, is being sent to San Francisco to the staff of Admiral Ingersoll, Commander of the Western Sea Frontier. Graduated from Annapolis in 1927, he came here from the U.S.S. Arkansas in September...
...Fascists. At the Palace Hotel could be met such old-time friends of the Count as Countess Edda Mussolini Ciano, widow of the Fascist foreign minister whom her father had had shot. With her was her latest lover, dandified Marchese Pucci, who had helped whisk her across the Swiss frontier when Mussolini fell. This strange pair descended periodically from their snug mountain chalet to dance, dine and wine...
Ghormley went to Pearl Harbor, as commandant of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier. There Nimitz gave him, and all his other subordinates, a daily object lesson in how to keep fit. By then Nimitz had moved his headquarters to a steel & concrete building, supposedly bombproof, overlooking the yard. Each morning he walked a mile or so before breakfast; each afternoon he played tennis (beating many a man much younger), or walked up & down Aiea Mountain, or hiked seven miles to a beach for a three-mile swim. The only man who could outwalk his chief was Spruance, chief of staff...
When the Americans marched into Monschau on the German-Belgian frontier last September, pretty Maria, a 17-year-old German, watched them in stony silence. But she confided her feelings to her lover, Peter, an SS man, in letters which she could not mail to unoccupied Germany. The letters were discovered when Maria was arrested last week for talking to a would-be Nazi saboteur...