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...light primary Democrats polled a higher vote: 324,000 to 299,000. Both parties were torn by internal dissension; both now have a hot campaigner at the top of the ticket. Bob Hannegan and Harry Truman are sure to pour in all the money and speakers necessary for a thumping campaign; the Republicans likewise. (One reason for Tom Dewey's Governors' meeting in St. Louis was to pep up the Missouri G.O.P.) If Missouri is any barometer, and it has been a true one in the past 40 years, the 1944 Presidential election will be the closest since...
...gone into this semi-deserted mansion to obtain a better view of the battle. As we entered the hall, covered with dust and broken glass, we were amazed to see a magnificent early Florentine crucifix hanging among the smashed mirrors and torn paper...
...There was a great quiet and I got up from the ditch. It looked as though everyone was dead or torn to pieces, but then about 80 Germans picked themselves up from here and there, and came over and asked me to take them prisoner. They'd had enough...
...Uncle Joe" promptly adopted it. Just as promptly it was dubbed in arsy-versy army lingo, "Operation Mallory Major." It was a sequel to "Operation Strangle" (TIME, May 8), in which German supply routes to central Italy were torn apart in preparation for the push on Rome...
...home in "the ugly and incongruous West ern chapel," or "even in a fine Gothic church." He recommends that future Christian churches in Japan be built in "the shrine form of architecture, with its clean lines and austere beauty." He would even have the churches include the Buddhist torn (ceremonial gateway). The churches should not stand on streets, but be "hidden in groves of trees with torn and mossy stone steps, fountains of water, and old flowering shrubs." He also 'recommends drastic changes inside the buildings. Noss says the Japanese are repelled by a minister who "wears a frock...