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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Skimmed off the top of the froth, "Margie" is another throwback to the days of the flapper, raccoon coat and Stutz Bearcat. Told in easy retrospect, "Margie" is as pleasant as on evening over the family album, and as awkward as a picture of Mother conducting a high-school debate...
...through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank up his roadster, or neck on a hot June night...
Longevity Senator David I. Walsh, 74, took off his hat and coat as he entered a Northampton, Mass, hotel, automatically handed them to a young fellow who murmured...
Says Father Matthews: "It holds just as true in religion as in politics. Any successful new system has got to be an organic outgrowth from the old one. Otherwise the new religion will be only a surface covering that can be taken off like you take off your coat at night. And to make the new religion grow organically out of the old, you've got to know the old inside out. . . . You've got to know the beliefs and customs of a people to know how they can best understand the Christian faith and accept...
Early one morning this week, New York's harbor was a well-planned bedlam of whistles, sirens and bells. Fireboats spouted their best special-occasion cascades. Amid this welcoming todo, the Cunarder Queen Elizabeth, spick & span in a new coat of red, white and black paint, nosed past the Statue of Liberty, headed up the Hudson. At 7:33 a.m., she tied up at Pier 90, ending her maiden commercial voyage across the North Atlantic. Henceforth the 1,031-ft., 83,673-ton Queen Elizabeth will sail weekly between New York and Southampton (the Queen Mary is still being...