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Shortly before noon, Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, commander of U.S. forces in the Philippines, left his headquarters on the stricken island. Wainwright walked towards his conquerors (reported Nichi Nichi's correspondent), carrying a white flag. He "slumped into a chair . . . head held in both hands, his eyes staring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: 15467 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

With the appearance of warm weather, the future "medicos" of Company A find their task (which we feel is the toughest to be found around Harvard) made more difficult. It is not unusual to catch a dreamy "G.L." staring out some lab window, at the lazy, sunlit street below. Spring...

Author: By E. MORGAN Vigneron, | Title: ARMY P-1's CORNER | 4/25/1944 | See Source »

The stories are simple, sometimes only a few paragraphs of cadenced prose. Their taste is bitterer than that of her novels. An Unwritten Novel, with its anguished account of a nervous, twitching, staring woman visiting her plump, patronizing sister-in-law, whose children stop eating to watch her tremors, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Meteorites | 4/24/1944 | See Source »

Soon subway riders found themselves staring at Sir Thomas Lawrence's The Calmady Children, in color on a car card loudly labeled GREAT ART, unaccompanied by any text other than names of artist, picture and Museum director, and the fact that a print of the painting could be had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great Art | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Many died on the battlefield. Their hospital was crammed with wounded. The unhurt were brokenhearted. Long afterward their general sat, staring sadly at the hill from his observation post. Crown Prince Umberto, who had been there at the start, had already left. Later he flew over the German lines in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: For Savoy | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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