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Chicken Every Sunday (adapted from Rosemary Taylor's book, by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein; produced by Edward Gross) is a tall tale of boardinghouse life in Tucson, Ariz. a generation ago. A lot of it is less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Apr. 17, 1944 | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

...recent fuss made by FBI and local agencies in rounding up the polygamists of Short Creek, Ariz, and sundry other points in these parts seems out of proportion with the evil done by these biologically overproductive ladies and gentlemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 10, 1944 | 4/10/1944 | See Source »

...camp near Phoenix, Ariz, this week a Nazi prisoner was found hanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Springtime in the Rockies | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

...Phoenix, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 7, 1944 | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

Comic Sourpuss. Star of the 48th News is its cartoonist, babyfaced, 22-year-old Bill Mauldin (onetime truck driver, Chicago dishwasher and sign painter), from Phoenix, Ariz. Mauldin's chief character is an unshaven, weary-shouldered, sad-eyed "Joe," the typical U.S. soldier learning war the hard way. Soldiers think he is so true to life that potent Stars & Stripes also runs him now & then. "Joe" seldom smiles as he goes through the trials of the soldier's life. Explains Mauldin: "Life up there isn't very funny. I was 18 when I joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Star-Spangled Banter | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

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