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...girdled the globe, run off a great flight in the Army's biggest plane (Boeing B15) with a gargantuan load of medical supplies for quake-stricken Chile. Yet Caleb Haynes is no chair polisher. He, too, rode out in front in every show he could make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF CHINA: Proof by Chennault | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

MOSCOW, Monday--Russian defenders of the Caucasus, fighting furiously all along the lower Don, have thwarted German attempts to storm across the river in force, a Soviet communique said today, but a Nazi assault army of 600,000 men and 2,000 tanks has driven deeper into stricken Rostov...

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; it had ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. . . . And the Lord remembered Sarah as He had said. . . . And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age.-Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Would-Be Mothers | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Robert T. Fisher '12, Harvard football coach from 1919 through 1922, died Tuesday morning at the Newton Hospital in his 54th year. En route to his home in Weston, he was stricken in Newtonville station Monday afternoon by a heart attack...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FISHER, LATE CRIMSON GRID COACH, DIES | 7/8/1942 | See Source »

...hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat. The Waller family-Annie, his aunt, Mollie, his wife-faced a winter of starvation. Waller put a pistol in his pocket, went to Davis to demand his 50 sacks of wheat. According to Waller: "Mr. Davis said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Second-Class Citizen | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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