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...Hell of Buna. In May 1942, the 32nd was dumped into Australia. Douglas MacArthur, beginning his New Guinea campaign, picked it for his onslaught on Buna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Case History | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...Hyde of Harvard, who did undergraduate work across the River, claims many laurels for the Boston womenfolk. Of course, he may be a bit on the biased side, but, as we Frenchmen say, "c'est la guerre." Yea, and then there is Sherman's oft-quoted remark, "war is Hell...

Author: By The PEARSON Twins, | Title: Lucky Bag | 11/28/1944 | See Source »

...demobilized. Soldiers in the South Pacific came to arms at this announcement; however, all Naval personnel will stay out here until the war with Japan is ended. We feel that too many soldiers are making a rush for that demobilization boat. . . . We, too, would like to get the hell out of the service and back to the homes which we love, but faced with nude "reality we believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to forget our personal desires and finish the hard, relentless job before us. The point of these two issues is that the Army should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 20, 1944 | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...middle of their act, Charlie suddenly reared up, turned to Bergen and said: "Who the hell ever told you you were a good ventriloquist?" Bergen blushed, fidgeted, tried to put his hand over Charlie's mouth. "Don't shush me," Charlie continued. "I'll mow-w-w-w you down. You better go back to the farm and leave me alone. I'll get by, but you're all through, brother, all through." Charlie then turned on the customers and told them they were a disgrace to civilization. Bergen put him on a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Cultivated Groaner | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...prevents me thinking about my own." "Pray, who is Bach, a piper?" In his last years he became asthmatic and dropsical, admitted that he was desperately afraid of being "one of those who shall be damned." "What do you mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Immense Structure | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

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