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Big Three rule of thumb: when Russian negotiators sit hour after hour, staring glumly at their navels, things are going badly. When they look their opponents in the eye, and smile, things are going well.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Look a Russian in the Eye | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

Within one spring week it suddenly seemed that the war across the world was mounting to a climax and a breaking point. Germany's legendary Rhine barrier was forced in five growing bridgeheads; a storm of steel and fire was building up in the East. Defeat was staring Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Week of Climax | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

The movie industry has presented Hollywood Canteen (TIME, Jan. 15), as I understand it, as a portrayal of the job it's doing as a war industry. . . . We saw the picture last night. . . . It catered to one of our most grievous needs: there were lovely American girls in it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 5, 1945 | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

When the doors (of the ramshackle boxcars) were opened, someone, I can't remember who, said we had reached Capas, a town in Tarlac province, and that we were headed for O'Donnell prison camp-named for the town of O'Donnell. . . . A seven-mile hike to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Black Hole Of Luzon | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

When the mayor of Carvell City drove up, Cancy Dodd was sprawled on his broken-down porch staring glumly at his scrubby farmland and thinking about his hidden still and the two men he had once killed "in self-defense." Cancy was Carvell City's toughest Negro-hater. But...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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