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Hawks, no niggardly director, moved 250 actors and technicians to location in the Arizona desert, began to shoot, speeding rushes to Hughes in Los Angeles by Hughes's private plane. Deeply moved by these first samples, Hughes demanded that Hawks spend more lavishly. By second week's end...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hughes's Western | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

The merchant seaman is doing a huge job in the war. Last week a conference of Government medical officials and top-rank psychiatrists at the New York Academy of Medicine considered what a grueling job it is also. Cases were presented from the War Shipping Administration's five rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Up from the Sea | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Upshot of Captain Fuller's plea is a moving radio program called Tell It to the Marines beamed for 15 minutes, five times a week, to all the South Pacific. In addition to news, tunes and scuttlebutt (gossip), the Marines are reached direct with messages from home. Samples:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Tell It to the Marines | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Next morning the convoy reached the vicinity of Lae, where more Zeros undertook to protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For the Honor of God | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

To help its canteen workers understand American patrons, Britain's Navy, Army & Air Force Institutes issued a pamphlet. Interesting by-product was the information it gave U.S. soldiers about what the British think of them after nearly a year in the United Kingdom. Samples: >"Americans are men's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Lovely Day, Isn't It? | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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