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...staff returned with ideas for six shorts (now in production) designed to acquaint the U.S. with its southern neighbors by using Donald Duck and other old Disney standbys in the role of fall guys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mammal-of-the-Year | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

Sponsored by Phillips Brooks House, the dance has two objectives: first, to acquaint Boston and Harvard with South American manners, mores, and inhabitants; and second, to raise money for the benefit of the University International Club and to start a scholarship fund for Latin-American students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROOKS HOUSE TO HOLD LATIN DANCE FRIDAY | 11/25/1941 | See Source »

Frederick B. Boyden '45, chairman of the labor committee of the Harvard Student Union, said last night that the students will go from door to door among the workers' homes in an effort to acquaint them with the union and its advantages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HSU Helps CIO to Organize Bethlehem Steel Workers | 10/2/1941 | See Source »

Best of the lot is Spring Offensive, a two-reeler designed to acquaint the British countryside with the reasons for and methods of plowing under 10% of the nation's grassland for food crops. It is an almost perfect example of the high technical quality and emotional drive of the artfully made documentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Documentaries | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

Model Wife (Universal). Year ago the American Mothers Society of New York decided that blonde, bumpy Joan Blondell was America's Most Glamorous Mother. This year they reaffirmed their decision, commissioned a sculptor to preserve Mother Blondell in bronze. This was Universal's cue to acquaint cinemagoers with the marital charms of their beglamored star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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