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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together Again (Columbia) is a title which presumably refers to the fact that Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer once made a successful romance called Love Affair (1939), and are now at it once more. It can hardly refer to the present picture. Its story is a skittish, moderately ribald frappé about a small-town mayoress (Miss Dunne), her father-in-law (Charles Coburn), and a sculptor (Mr. Boyer) who remodels her career...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

This weekend promises to be well filled with dances and such. First off this afternoon there's the affair at St. Ben's Center, then tomorrow, dances at Curry and Pine Manor (see Mrs. Inglis for reservations). We saw Professor Hanson about this former affair and he promises eider to all ensigns and light homework for all middies interested (see Mrs. Bonn for reservations...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 12/1/1944 | See Source »

...Stagier's dance. To mention a few, "Robel" Smith, string bean drawl expert, Bill Shuey, and Kirby "Sour" Pickie were in attendance. Tom Wilcox musta used his Virginia drawl to influence roommates Wood, of Florida, and Woodin, who once spent week ends in Iowa, into the Bradford College affair. A word to the wise all agree that Bradford is fairly loaded with prospective...talent...

Author: By Pearson Twins, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/21/1944 | See Source »

...street fighting. Presumably they would fall back on Buda, force the Russians into a difficult (but not impossible) river crossing under the heights crowned by Fortress Hill and the Royal Palace. The Russians could count on their own power, on help from some Hungarians who saw that the affair was over, and now preferred to save their city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (South): End of an Affair | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Bottom of the Sea | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

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