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...trial in mid-September, the Government is jealously guarding all details of its superduper spy story. But FBI introduced a cast of characters to jar the most jaded melodrama addict. Charged with collecting information on U.S. war plans and plants: > "Countess" Grace (pronounced "Grawse," she says) Buchanan-Dineen, 34, Canadian-born, who traveled widely in Europe and somehow picked up a hyphenated name and title. FBI claims that she also picked up considerable spy-schooling in Budapest. In 1941 she landed in the U.S. by clipper from Lisbon, eventually turned up in Detroit. Ever since, says FBI, she has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Story Book Reading | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

Died. Robert D. ("Bob") Emslie, 84, Canadian-born, oldtime big-league pitcher and longtime "Dean" of National League umpires; of a heart attack; in St. Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

George Dixon, fortyish, is a Canadian-born, curly-haired, chunky Washington correspondent for the New York Daily News whose gay, lemonish journalese is often the frosting to a cardboard cake. Any Dixon story is entertaining, but readers can never be quite sure what is true and what is plain flapdoodle. Last week Dixon ran a delightful story in the News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reportage | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...Canadian-born Actor Raymond ("Abe Lincoln") Massey, veteran of World War I, reported for duty in Ottawa, was given a majority, assigned to the adjutant general's office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Past Masters | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

Written by 35-year-old, Canadian-born Allan Kenward, an M.G.M. director of shorts, Cry Havoc has an all-female cast, tells of volunteer nurses huddled for weeks in a bomb shelter on Bataan. Its minimum of plot deals with the Fifth-Column finaglings of one of them. But Cry Havoc does not need much plot: it points a fierce picture of driving war, provides a grim drama of doomed women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Little Theater's Big Hit | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

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