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...rough-&-tumble role. Strong men quiver as she coaxes them on with: "Anything you can win you can collect." Nobody but Miner Wayne, who has already had the best years of Cherry's life, collects much. He gets her, his appropriated mine, and a beautiful going-over to boot. All ends well in the sturdiest of melodramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Borderline Stuff | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped soldiers, have room for a light 13½-ton tank to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Worldwide Air Freight | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

...thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes the Little Fellow. "Give it two more minutes." He serves it up with a shoestring for potatoes, munches it contentedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 6, 1942 | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

...cruiser Houston. Most editors had thought themselves lucky to be able to identify the Houston's Commander. How had Editor Shaw got his list of the cruiser's personnel? How picked out the Clevelanders? And, above all, how rounded up photographs of all-in uniform to boot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Systematic Editor | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

Author Rawlings wondered why Mr. Martin would take a scrawny sow. Mr. Higgenbotham explained. "Well, when you figger on a sow, you figger on more than a sow. You buy you a sow, and directly you've got a litter of pigs to boot. . . . Now I'm carrying that sow there to Mr. Martin's boar hog. You know sows?" Mrs. Rawlings said no. "Well, a sow's peculiar. Times, she'll take, and again she'll not take. It all depends on the moon. Now last moon, she'd not of took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Enchanted Land | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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