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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allan Roy Dafoe resigned as official physician of the Dionne Quintuplets. Said the man who attended their birth in 1934 and became the world's best-known country doctor: "I felt that my usefulness has come to an end." Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn commented: "It is no secret that things have not been harmonious there for some time. . . ." The Dionnes won custody of the Quintuplets last September. Added difficulty: Dr. Dafoe speaks little French, the Quints little English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bejeweled Hyena | 2/23/1942 | See Source »

Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team to Face Amherst, Williams on Weekend Trip | 2/20/1942 | See Source »

...North Carolina coast the heavily laden U.S. tanker Allan Jackson swerved desperately to avoid a torpedo that broke water 150 yards short of its mark, then scored a direct hit amidships. Only 13 of the crew of 35 reportedly survived. Also off North Carolina the tanker Malay was torpedoed but limped to safety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: What is a Menace? | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Remember is not exciting, but it has a casual authenticity and charm. Its reconstruction of World War I society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...their paper shortage, had the civilized perspicacity to print-was E. M. Butler's Rainer Maria Rilke ($4.50), the first full-length study of a great German poet. Others were Peter Quennell's arch Byron in Italy ($3.50) and Arthur Hobson Quinn's heavy, thorough Edgar Allan Poe ($5). Garrett Mattingly's Catherine of Aragon ($3.50) and Kenneth Allott's smart Jules Verne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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