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Irina Baronova, popular White Russian pin-up girl of the Red Army, ballerina of the Manhattan musical Follow the Girls, had a new narcissus named for her by the Horticultural Society of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Troubled | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Rocky Wullfaert tells us he has been chosen "pin-up" boy by the Sophs at Wellesley. Speaking of pin-ups, we have one of our own-a certain Miss Green. She'll be available for public surveillance if she lives up to her promise to brighten Harvard with her "1942, cream-colored, Buick convertible." Get in your reservations early...

Author: By W. M. Cousins jr. and Midshipmen T. X. cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 5/9/1944 | See Source »

...Japanese, said he, had twin aims: political propaganda in India; the capture of favorable positions for attack on the Assam-Bengal railway - chief supply line for China as well as the India and Burma battlefronts. The Allied countermove is first to locate and pin down the Japs, prevent them from gaining full use of roads, squeeze their supplies. Secondly, the British would attack and destroy the enemy - an operation which would take several weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Brighter Picture | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Bronze Red Cross donor pins are given to persons making a gift of blood, after which a silver pin is awarded for three donations. Appointments can be obtained by calling at 485 Boylston Street from 8:45 o'clock to 8:30 o'clock on weekdays and from 8:45 o'clock to 8:30 o'clock on Saturdays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Tops Blood Drive | 5/2/1944 | See Source »

...class is noted for two things: 1) its crack baseball team; 2) its U.S. generals in World War II. Omar Bradley played in the outfield, batted .383 and is still remembered at the Point for his great throwing arm. He was also the first member of the class to pin on a general officer's stars (when he took command at Fort Benning as a brigadier general in February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Doughboy's General | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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