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...whirlwind of activity since he became Secretary of State for War three years ago cherub-faced and cheerfully ambitious Leslie Hore-Belisha has given the British Army a rousing New Deal. He raised Tommy Atkins' pay, smartened his uniform, gave him free haircuts, better food. More important, Mr. Hore-Belisha braced up the common soldier's morale by shattering a tradition of centuries that British officers were not promoted from the ranks but trained in expensive academies whose cost barred them to the poor. Promotion is now from the ranks; the mistress of a Tommy on active service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tommy's Friend Out | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...last & always with him. Composer Dick Rodgers once asked him: "Is it a secret that I am writing the music for this show?" Retorted Maney: "It's Billy Rose who is handing out the pay." He says himself that a press agent should have the face of a cherub and the heart of a section foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Portrait of a Press Agent | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

Last week the memory of these Stockbridge bravos brought a sold-out house to Dorothy Maynor's first public recital, at Manhattan's Town Hall. Bronze, cherub-faced Diva Dorothy soon showed that her Stockbridge judges had not been far wrong, but had been a little premature. When she was through, Manhattan's critics huddled in the lobby, agreed that the Voice had a rough edge here & there, prophesied a sensational future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Diva | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...chosen to sweeten NLRB is a merry, contemplative cherub of 56. Now grey, paunchy and averse to all forms of physical effort, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two Nice Men | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...also Victor Moore, the uncheerful cherub, the chubby Caspar Milquetoast, the Chamber-of-Commerce Charlie Chaplin, the Cupid of clowns who shoots straight for the heart. Victor Moore is the best reason why Leave It to Me! is a hit. Victor Moore is wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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