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Beginning April 1, the hunched figure, murmuring "bound hands," "pin cheat," and keeping his score in "thous" will be a thing of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Pinster, Dear Pinster, Come Home With Me Now," Say I | 3/27/1945 | See Source »

Galo Plaza Lasso, Ecuador's Ambassador to Washington, worked closely with the U.S. delegation. But he delighted correspondents by reviving that conference perennial, the striped-pants story. After reporters had smoked out a State Department memorandum recommending pin-striped pants, Ambassador Plaza announced: "I've told everyone in the U.S. that I've never worn them, and I certainly don't intend to start now." The A.P. quoted a conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Illusion in Striped Pants | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

British troops advancing into Germany last week found greetings on the doors of several abandoned houses. Example: "We have done you no harm-do not harm our little home." But on many a door the troops found it necessary to pin signs of their own. Example: "House Booby Trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY: Welcome | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...scope of the cigaret black market was easier to pin down. In Manhattan probably 20 to 25% of all the cigarets for civilians were moving through the black market. Result: many a smoker was glad to pay 50? for a 17? pack of cigarets, more than glad when a black marketeer gave him a chance at a carton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Flood Tide | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...their drama, the air strikes on Tokyo were incidental. They were designed to isolate the battlefield, to pin the Japs' home-based aircraft to the ground, while more Navy plans unfolded at Iwo Jima-also known as Sulphur Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hell's Acre | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

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