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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from gates to gods, the customers cheered & cheered, the curtain rose & fell, the cast bowed & bowed. It was a triply ripping occasion: 1) the opening of Britain's first big postwar musical, Big Ben; 2) the 125th production by Britain's Flo Ziegfeld, aging (73), arthritic Charles Blake Cochran; 3) a show written by a Member of Parliament-bung-nosed Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, famed as a humorous writer ("A.P.H.") and as a pillar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Baffled, the Army called in the Navy, and the Navy, which had noise trouble of its own, appealed to Biologist Charles H. Blake of M.I.T. What subsea gremlin, they asked, was making the uproar? "Fish," said Professor Blake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Davy Jones's Sound Effects | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...James R. Blake '48--Nancy Barton (Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jubilee Goers and Guests | 4/27/1946 | See Source »

...This is the end of Blakesburg!" shrieked the school principal. "It is the end of Blake County, our State and our Republic! But I shall take the flag of this Republic with me and plant it in the Glory Land where it will bloom forever and forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The End of Kentucky | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Blake wrote the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. ...I have written of their divorce." Thus ruddy, balding British Author Clive S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters, etc.), a convert (1930) from well-bred skepticism to the Church of England, explains the purpose of his new book, The Great Divorce (MacMillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Excursion from Hell | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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