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...baseball game or a day at Coney Island. Critics were unable to down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism is one of the most robust and various in modern music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Antheil's Fourth | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Dumesnil hid his share. André Pierre tried changing a note or two. Police were informed of strange serial numbers, arrested both men. Hard-pressed Frenchmen guffawed among themselves when they learned that the bank had known nothing of its loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Les Mis | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...once, rain and fog were welcome. When the word came to move, the weather hid the little party of 20 and their six truckloads of equipment-radio apparatus, tents, personal effects. Twenty-seven hours later the A.A.C.S. barge scraped to a landing at Munda. It was the first Air Forces unit to reach the island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Global War, Global Network | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Sacramento, Calif., for two days last week, only five taxicabs remained in service to handle emergency calls. All five cabs stayed clear of hotels and the Southern Pacific's bustling station; one even hid in a downtown alley. The other 115 Sacramento cabs had used the last gallon of their quarterly gas ration, and could get no more until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxi! | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

First Class. "The pillboxes were 70 yards apart and built into rock and were amazingly well camouflaged. They were of two sizes. The four-by-fours contained machine-gun nests, the ten-by-tens hid each a mortar. The roofs were of railroad ties and rails buried under a two-foot layer of broken stone. The approaches were sown with the German anti-personnel mines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Those Damn Pillboxes | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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