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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back in the news in Los Angeles. The arm-throwing, hair-shaking shouter, whose I Don't Care made her one of vaudeville's biggest stars in her youth, had periodically been reported near death during the last ten years. Last week she charged that Elza Schallert, a writer at work on her biography, refused to give back her autobiographical notes. Eva wanted the notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...retired, noted with satisfaction that his little school was giving a good account of itself beyond, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. Seventy of his boys, nearly a third of all who have graduated from his junior college, went off to fight for their country. One, Marine Elza O'Neal, was captured on Wake Island ("Send more Japs"); another, Lieut. William R. Ussery, was killed in action in a plane in the Pacific; a third, Lieut. Denver Truelove, flew with Jimmy Doolittle to bomb Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dr. Andy's Crop | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...years Prestes been in a Rio de Janeiro jail, serving a 17-year sentence for sedition passed on him after the failure of the Communist uprising of 1935. Three weeks ago he stood trial again, this time for the murder a 17-year-old girl, Elvira Copelo Polonio, alias Elza Fernandes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Means to the End | 11/25/1940 | See Source »

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