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...personality front, Harry Truman (Taurus) seemed in for a rise in prestige and a decline in health, Winston Churchill (Sagittarius) for a "permanent change of residence," the C.I.O.'s Phil Murray (Gemini) for "a churning year," Crooner Frank Sinatra (Sagittarius) for "increased power." Things were not going so well-astrology-wise-with Generalissimo Stalin (Sagittarius). The current opposition of Uranus to the Sun in Stalin's chart pointed inexorably toward the end of his trail, certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Will I Succeed? | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...arrived in Hollywood in September 1942. Probably Metro's most promising ingenue, she is the opposite of the typical young screen sparkler, looks and acts more like a well-adjusted schoolgirl from Pelham, N.Y.-which she is. Retiring, unflighty, even ungregarious, she lives quietly with her husband, reformed Crooner Dick Powell, 41, in a two-bedroom country house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. She cooks, takes art lessons, likes to read mystery stories, rarely makes the Hollywood nightclubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 11, 1946 | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Ruby Keeler, 35, light-footed dancing star of cinemusicals in the heavy-footed '30s, onetime wife of pop-eyed Mammy-Crooner Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 33, Pasadena broker and wartime navy lieutenant: their third child, first son. Name: John Lowe III. weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Princess Elizabeth, Britain's 19-year-old heiress presumptive, who recently gave an inkling of what goes on in her pretty young head by choosing Bing Crosby as her favorite crooner, waltzed with a chef in the Royal Servants' Hall of Buckingham Palace. In the same room Lillibet's royal father was taking a whirl with the butler's wife, and her mother with a footman. The occasion: the household staff's annual Christmas party, at which the members of the royal family customarily democratize, the staff admirably Crichton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: First Families | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

Among its varied villains, Walter Slezak is outstanding as the sly, slippery, fat one. As the deadpan tough guy, Dick Powell is more acceptable than he ever was as a tirelessly boyish cinemusical crooner. As a thriller-a cinema form which Hollywood often does expertly-Cornered is head-&-shoulders above the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1945 | 12/17/1945 | See Source »

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