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Uncle Eustace in the Void. They all sat in a dark circle, holding hands. "Tell [Eustace] we're waiting," snapped Mrs. Gamble. Gamble "Only just come over," squeaked the medium. "Seems he doesn't rightly know he's passed on." In the darkness, Mrs. Thwale crooked her forefinger and traced the letters L O V E on Sebastian's palm. Then she traced a few other, unprintable, four-letter words. "Is it true?" she asked Eustace, "that where you are, there isn't any marrying?" "Backwards and downwards, Christian soldiers," retorted Eustace sarcastically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Huxleyan Heaven and Earth | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

...this mission, a "medium-sized" force of the great bombers flew from a base in the Southeast Asia Command near the equator, about 1,800 miles from the target. (The only Allied fields meeting these specifications are on Ceylon.) The blow was a bitter one for the Japs. Scorched by the Dutch, the refinery had been restored to something like its old capacity (18,000,000 barrels a year), reputedly was turning out aviation fuel as well as other petroleum products desperately needed by the enemy. Superfortressmen reported they had hit it fairly and squarely, thought it might take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: The Noose Tightens | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Americans All (MARCH OF TIME) probes gingerly into the open sore of racial and religious intolerance in the U.S. One of its first scenes shows young hoodlums stoning a Jewish tailor shop. Then, abruptly, the film shifts to the less inflammatory medium of newspaper headlines and pictures, passes tactfully on to speeches for tolerance by representatives of press, church and government. Almost one-third of the picture's 20 minutes is devoted to the Negro in the South and his gradual economic emancipation. Climax is an analysis of the famous Springfield (Mass.) Plan for fostering community action through public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Rommel had a concentration of guns, armor and Italians at El Hamma. Coningham turned loose nearly every medium and light bomber in North Africa on the still-cocky Nazi. For two and a half hours, sticks of bombs were continuously in the air. At the end of the breakthrough and the pursuit, Rommel had lost 300 tanks and vehicles, and his armored back was finally broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tactician on Top | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

Sergeant & Pretty Nurse. Long before Captain Spencer and his U.S. medium-bomber crew are forced down in German territory, each crew member has been warned to tell his captors only his name, rank and serial number. The movie dramatizes the wiles employed by the German Military Intelligence to worm out additional information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Educational Thriller | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

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