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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boozy butler of Composer Tone's Park Avenue penthouse. But it is Butler O'Brien's special business to keep thrushes out of this quiet nest, and for several reels Miss Durbin, though she crowbars her way into a maid's job there, has to content herself with charming some comic local lackeys and an eager Broadway producer (Walter Catlett). At last, at a Butlers' Ball, she utters some high notes which pierce the heart of her brother's boss. She also sings a slice of hickory-smoked Victor Herbert and an aria from...

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

...Express is no scandal sheet, but Arthur Christiansen's brand of journalism has a distinctly yellow hue. There is nothing in the U.S. quite comparable to it. In appearance and content it is more like the Hearst papers than anything else-copiously illustrated, splashy with black headlines, trickily laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Fleet Street Wizard | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...Content Peckham came to TIME as a Science and Medicine researcher in 1934 (a job her Bryn Mawr background in the sciences helped her land). But when Hitler goose-stepped his troops into the Rhineland two years later and TIME started building up its Foreign News staff for the storm to come, her firsthand knowledge of Europe made her a logical research-candidate for this expanded department. She has been helping to keep TIME'S Foreign News straight ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...other system quite as demanding as this in all the world of journalism-and subscribers often ask us how we find girls who can stand the gaff and shoulder the responsibility, and what kind of girls they are. So this week I thought I would introduce you to Content Peckham, one of the best researchers we've ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

With such a background, Content Peckham has outgrown her old post as a researcher. Last year she became an associate editor-and today her special and highly important job is to head up the 14 girls who check every word you read in World Battlefronts, Foreign News and Army & Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 1, 1943 | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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