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...activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: WHILE CAIRO FIDDLED | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Irene Wicker, NBC's "Singing Lady," added her voice. "You men are writers," she said, "you know what you are talking about. Write. Write. And write for the children as well. . . . Children, too, must know for what men are dying." Her 19-year-old son had just been killed in action with the Royal Canadian Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hate? | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

...Congo waters, banged out the suggestion that surrounding tribesmen kill the beast. They whammed the reply: "We cannot overpower majesty of his jaws." When storm clouds rose, Carrington socked out: "Bad man, son of disease, is coming down upon clods of earth." Tribesmen began closing the doors of the wicker huts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Drumming Baptist | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...Sing Sing and into a waiting limousine popped Richard Whitney, paroled after three years, four months of prison for grand larceny when his brokerage firm failed. His luggage: a Gladstone bag, a wicker hamper, a cardboard box, two sacks holding miscellaneous belongings. In his jeans: a check for $183, most of it his earnings at 15? a day as clerk in the Keeper's office. Immediate prospect: stewardship of 25 cows on a Cape Cod farm. The rules: don't change jobs without permission; keep regular hours; stay away from firearms, liquor, convicts, Wall Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Ronald E. Vanelli, Quincy, Mass,; Whiting Wicker, Burlington, Vt.; Joseph P. Willetts, Roslyn, L.I.N.Y,; Arthur T. Wood, Brookline, Mass,; and Charles B. Woodman, Cambridge, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADAMS GIVES NAVY SCI. COMMISSIONS | 6/19/1941 | See Source »

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