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...Charleston's famed Citadel, where military-minded young Southerners go to learn soldiering, a tradition of 100 years was broken when no grits was available for breakfast. Vexed South Carolina housewives started a small boom in hand gristmills, scoured the countryside in search of corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: It's a Long Time between Grits | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Army at last broke secrecy on its most hush-hush subject-its search for new weapons and devices. For the first time in this war, it permitted the National Inventors Council to make public a list of some things the Army needs, invited amateur inventors to put their ingenuity to work on these specific problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: What the Army Wants | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...ever heard of ... is operated by a sad-eyed, spanielesque woman named Cora.") Sample treatment : "The trouble is that whenever we advertise something-demmit, people come in and buy it. And then we're out of that too. So today we have scoured the Farmers Market in search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery of Shoe Reconstruction, we have a contraption priced at $7.50 that cannot be worth a shiny steel penny. It is useless, badly designed, overpriced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Big-Time Belittling | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

...Carrolls (by Martin Vale; produced by Robert Reud & Paul Czinner). For eight years-ever since Escape Me Never-versatile, Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner has been searching for a new play to appear in on Broadway. The Two Mrs. Carrolls suggests that the search had become pretty desperate. From 8:40 to 10 it is just dull; from 10 o'clock on it is pretty fair melodrama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...heated as high as 350°F. by the exhaust pipes, is circulated through the wings's leading edges, keeps them at 60°F, no matter how far below zero the outside temperature goes. Satisfactory tests in far-northern climates lead engineers to hope that the long search is finished. If so, the U.S. can relax about what was once the No. 1 peril of winter flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wing Anti-Icer | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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