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...Montana's Wheeler in the Senate (see p. 75), Charles Lindbergh on the air detected and resisted a drift toward total U. S. war. Nearer the core of U. S. fear and feeling was Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, writing in the New York Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Black Week | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...American Actor Ben Lyon taught voluptuous, blonde Edna Powell the orthodox Minsky technique for her tease in Haw Haw, playing at the Holborn Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Strip Strip Hooray | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

When The Players revived it in Manhattan in 1933, Critic Percy Hammond claimed he detected tears in the eyes of such sophisticates as Edna Ferber, Rollin Kirby, Katharine Hepburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tom Shows | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Birthdays. Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, 83; Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay, 48; Frederic, Pirate of Penzance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 4, 1940 | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

...from seeming merely grotesque when viewed by the literal lens of a camera. A tame ostrich (apocryphally discovered dwelling in a South Sea jungle) taught to haul timber, a stuffed turtle towing a raft-load of gleeful Robinsons will divert children. For older boys there is always Mother Robinson (Edna Best) cavorting around in a pair of buckskin slacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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