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West from the Virgin Islands toward Haiti stood S.S. America, a thwarted ship in a restricted ocean. Biggest (27,000 gross tons) and fanciest merchantman ever to slide down a U.S. way, she had been conceived by the Maritime Commission for the blue-ribbon North Atlantic passenger trade. But before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAVY: Requisition | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

A POCKETFUL OF CLUES-James R. Langham-Simon & Schuster ($2). Tough Detective Sammy Abbott, who has a morbid appetite for peanut butter on his ice cream, sees a ragamuffin giving the hotfoot to a park-bench sleeper. The sleeper does not twitch. In fact underneath his newspaper he has no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in April | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

The story is a simple vehicle for the songs which are the reason for the picture. Harry Lauder is a traveling minstrel with a small band of friends. Misfortunes befall the little troupe as they play their way through the country. But these are incidental to the real part of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 3/25/1941 | See Source »

Died. Ivy Wingo, 50, oldtime major-league baseball star, catcher for the Cincinnati Reds when they defeated the Chicago Black Sox in the famed crooked world series of 1919; in Norcross. Ga.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 10, 1941 | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Last week OPM acquired a new agency with one job: to get a hilltop perspective of the present and future, advise the U. S. how to avoid crooked paths and hopelessly blocked roads. Announced by OPM's production director, John David Biggers, was a nine-man agency to be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: PPB | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

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