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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Over the Town (Rank; Universal-International) is chiefly notable as a starring vehicle for Sarah Churchill, onetime chorus girl, WAAF officer and stage actress, and second daughter of Winston Churchill. It is also an inoffensive little picture-which is fortunate for U.S. moviegoers who may be curious to get a close-up look at this charming chip off a famous old block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Banks, and how he became a remnant of his former self during the months just before his daughter's marriage, is the subject of the newest book by Edward Streeter, Manhattan banker and author of such occasional studies of U.S. types as Dere Mable (the World War I doughboy) and Daily Except Sundays (the harassed commuter). Father is one of the best of the Streeter studies: a simple-sentence, large-print piece of summer reading, as easy to absorb as sunshine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Hoarse Talk. The withering-away of Stanley Banks began the moment his daughter Kay told him that she was engaged. " 'Well, to begin with,' he gasped a little hysterically, 'who the hell is this Buckley anyway, and where the hell does he come from-and who does he think is going to support him? If it's me he's got another guess coming. And who in God's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

When the guest list began to press 300, Mr. Banks could see the handwriting on his bankbook. He took his daughter aside, said hoarsely: "I'll give you and Buckley fifteen hundred dollars to elope." She thought he was kidding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Ordeal of Mr. Banks | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

Susan Peters is the college president's daughter who is in love with her chemistry professor. Naturally, papa is quite upsot when his promising young chem researcher runs off to win a ponnant; but, inevitably the national pastime catches up with even the most erudite--girl friend, mother, finally papa himself all become ardent St. Louis fans...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: It Happens Every Spring | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

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