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...Saturday night in St. Johns. The barn dance was in full swing down in the war-built Knights of Columbus recreation center. About 500 men & women, many of them Canadian sailors, soldiers and flyers, were packed into the wooden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death at the Barn Dance | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...zenith last week; he had gained more prestige by avoiding the manpower job than Paul McNutt had by taking it. He was no longer a wallflower. A few days earlier, he had written a blistering ten-page letter to the editors of the Washington Star, nailing them to a barn door and skinning them alive for daring to criticize his oil setup. Given a chance to do the letter over last week, he would doubtless have cut it to five pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Somebody's Sweetheart Now | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

...Undependables. In Fort Scott, Kans., Farmer John Hall, who had heard that music made cows generous, installed a radio in his barn-to make his womenfolk want to help with the milking. The experiment failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

George Washington Slept Here (Warner) is an amusing picturization of the barn-theater hit about a back-to-the-land antique addict and his strictly modern-convenience wife, who bought a decrepit house in which George Washington was said to have slept. But the leading roles have been switched. In the film Ann Sheridan is a Duncan Phyfey wifey. Jack Benny is her harassed, urban-minded husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

...same time, Lemay organized and trained a creditable chorus of 250 voices and a Junior Symphony of 90 members. Duluth feels the orchestra would have died a natural death in Flaaten's barn except for the enthusiasm, patience, tact, humor and musical ability of Paul Lemay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 23, 1942 | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

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