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...fleece-lined jacket and corduroy trousers. After Monty had made his report he swung down a rope ladder to his launch, and looked up again, sharp-nosed, grinning, jaunty. Looking down at the great little soldier who, more than anyone, now carried the fate of the invasion in his thin hands, "Ike" gave him a thumbs-up and shouted: "Good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: Supreme Commander | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...pleasant Italian morning, with pale sunlight shimmering through a thin mist. Poppies bloomed in the wheat, crickets chirped in the weeds and skylarks sang overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF ITALY: Nightmare's End | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...year-old U.S. engineering student discovered his dream man. The student was Lewis Mumford. His dream man was Sir Patrick Geddes, a thin, agile Scot with a beard like the gorse on his native moors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Balancing Act | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...step right up, ladeez and gentlemen, for the greatest show on earth. See the thin man, the fat lady, the India rubber man, Jo-Jo the dog-faced boy, and Gargantua, who, when last week was confronted by three Harvard men said, "I prefer peanuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCUSGOER | 6/2/1944 | See Source »

...Buenos Aires) on three women far gone with breast cancer. The hormone improved all three cancer patients. One bedridden woman with a cancer that had spread to her bones was able to get up out of bed, now plays ping-pong every day. There is some recalcification of the thin spots in her bones. She still harbors cancer cells, but healthy fibrous tissue is growing among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hormones | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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