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...rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local physician (Franchot Tone) who, somewhat to the detriment of the picture, is obviously a man she can depend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...winners of 1944 Guggenheim Latin American Fellowships, Professor Alberto Barajas Celis of the National University of Mexico and Dr. Elisha Hirschhorn of La Plata, Argentina, will come to Harvard this year to carry on advanced research work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Award Recipients Plan Studies Here | 8/25/1944 | See Source »

...evening's end she drifts off without giving her name, and Architect Henderson drifts homeward to find detectives chewing cigars and chicle over his strangled wife. All efforts to find his alibi prove useless. The bartender (Andrew Tombes) has never seen her. Neither has the randy little drummer (Elisha Cook Jr.) who ogled her all evening. Neither has the Latin singer (Carmen Miranda's sister, Aurora), who threw a jealous tantrum because she and the Lady were wearing duplicate hats. Henderson is convicted of murder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...others, in order: James Thomas Fields, William Dean Howells, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Horace Elisha Scudder, Walter Hines Page, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pint to the Goal | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...students elected were: Gordon Allen, Concord; Elisha Atkins, Belmont; Jonas A. Barish, Mount Vernon, N. Y.; Thomas W. Blazey, Euclid, O,; Eugene L. Bondy, New Rochelle, N. Y.; Jack E. Bronston. Plainfield, N. J.; Lindley J. Burton, Wayzaia, Minn.; John Cancian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 46 MORE SENIORS RECEIVE PBK KEYS | 6/11/1942 | See Source »

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