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Tunisian Maginot Line. When the Fascist Chamber of Deputies began to clamor for French territory, the Packards went to Tunis. Reynolds visited the Berthome (Tunisian Maginot) Line, which "was located between the Libyan frontier and Médenine and consisted mostly of elaborate underground works where whole battalions could hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Il Duce's Volcano | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

Along Tennessee's Cumberland River, Army maneuvers reached their climax. Foot soldiers and jeepers, tankers, airmen and artillerymen tried every trick, threw everything they had except real ammunition, tramping out a problem. The problem: can a tank blitz be slowed and even halted. Answer: by well-organized opposition, yes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Lessons of the Cumberland | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Beat the Band (music by Johnny Green; book by George Marion Jr. & George Abbott; produced by Abbott) is a sort of bouncing and stentorian corpse. Always long on pep, Producer Abbott (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) has this time loosed a regular stage blitz, with everyone in the cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 26, 1942 | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

Inside the thickly armored walls of a light tank, with the traps buttoned up and only tiny periscope slits for ventilation, the temperature reaches fantastic heights -some tankers swear to 180°. Through the slits swirls desert dust, caking on the sweating faces of the four crew members into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Wind, Sand and Steel | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

In Manhattan, nightspots and boob-traps are roaring despite some 400,000 unemployed New Yorkers and a citywide dimout which has made Broadway the Great Dark Way. On the East Side zebra-striped El Morocco is open this summer for the first time in its ten-year history, and officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Cash in the Night | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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