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...Staff, and even though 18 months later his fortifications had fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard. When on September 29, 1918 the men of the U. S. II Corps went up against the final defenses of his Siegfried Position at Bellicourt, they had hell's own time. Between Bellicourt and Bony the St. Quentin Canal passed through a tunnel. In complete safety from shellfire the Germans massed reserve troops who lived in there on barges, ate in kitchens carved from the side of the tunnel and could mount to their hidden outside fighting positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Defense in Depth | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Between 15 and 19, Arthur Rimbaud wrote poetry whose slashing irony and pure music still influence poets. At 19 he wrote Une Saison en Enfer (A Season in Hell), an obscure, agonized hodgepodge in which Rimbaud addicts* trace the wrestlings of his André Gide-like puritanism with his André Gide-like passions. But from then until he died, at 37, in a Marseille hospital, Arthur Rimbaud never wrote again. This amazing break with his genius, his lone-wolf prowlings through the lower depths of Europe, his gunrunning in Africa and Asia form a vague, provoking literary legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Season in Hell | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Admiral of the Fleet is a daring, dynamic commander. Tall, hawk-browed Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 62, commanded the Colossus at Jutland. Six years ago, calling (like Winston Churchill) for Britain to rebuild her fleet, he predicted just what he had on his hands last week: "a hell of a fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Black Sunday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...infiltration maneuvers, to penetrate between gaps in the West Wall which, unlike the Maginot Line, is rather a series of sunken forts with tank traps and interlocking underground tunnels, than a continuous defense bastion. First "contact" (man to man) fighting was known to be on German soil, in the hell-raked strip between the two Lines. For an invasion of Germany, France is far better off now than in 1914 for she holds Alsace-Lorraine with its high escarpments jutting east toward Germany above Strasbourg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Black Sunday | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Robert Peace went to court with her husband, told the judge, "Since I married up with that name, I have been living in full hell." The judge listened, set another day for hearings, shouted after them as they left, "Peace be with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sep. 11, 1939 | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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