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Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Casualties | 3/27/1944 | See Source »

...nation's bumper crop of babies, the wise men of WPB had good tidings. Since last April, when a limitation was placed on the use of steel in infant vehicles, most babies have had to bump along in rickety wooden carriages, strollers, walkers and pushcarts. Last week, lifting this particular restriction, WPB hoped to allot enough metal to permit the manufacture of some 700,000 prewar model carriages this year. (Anticipated births...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN SUPPLY,AVIATION,RENEGOTIATION: For Babies Only | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

Government Girl (RKO-Radio) bump-the-bumps its way with engaging roughness through the crowded bedrooms, offices and baths of wartime Washington. It is the first picture to be produced and directed, as well as written, by top flight Scripter Dudley Nichols. Nichols did not want the job, which was tossed into his lap, like somebody else's damp baby, and he is reported to be unhappy about the result...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

There was a jerky bump and the boat swerved and came to a halt. We leaped out into the darkness and with fearful suddenness sank in water up to our necks. Close by there was the sharp crackle of a machine gun and a whining and metallic plunking as if something were striking the side of our boat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 26, 1943 | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

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