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Affinities. In Bound Brook, N.J., Barbara Jane Brilliant was engaged to Lieut. Saul Sunshine. In Woodland, Calif., Mrs. John Snowball paid $5,500 for a house to Bartholomew Blizzard...

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

...house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Big Four | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, somewhere in the South Pacific, gave his old man a break. He had been sending him $25 a month from his Marine pay, but the Governor of Massachusetts will henceforth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 29, 1943 | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

...terrible reply from Germany" to Allied air raids, said that fear of German retaliation "hangs like a nightmare over the British masses." The British masses, long accustomed to secret-weapon bogies, smiled tolerantly when London papers put his outcry on Page One. Labor's Daily Herald and Beaver-brook's Sunday Express condescendingly mentioned the report as pure propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENCMY: Threat of Vengeance | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

Line Upon Line, All Over Britain, War Workers Are Waiting For The Next Bus. With these bannerlines, Lord Beaver-brook's Daily Express opened war against a Government order reducing the number of busses on London lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Waiting for the Bus | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

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