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...Polski troupe, the Turas (Jack Benny and Miss Lombard) are a brittle couple. Their favorite soliloquy is Hamlet's To be, or not to be. . . . He likes to deliver it because it flatters his ego, at length; she likes it because it gives her time to entertain her male admirers backstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...answer could come as early as Wednesday or it might be postponed for almost a fortnight. Whereas the Indians play their last league contest day after tomorrow, Princeton has a full third of its schedule left. The Tigers entertain Penn on Wednesday and go to Ithaca on Saturday in two vital battles. Columbia must be met at home on the 11th and the annual game in the Palestra, which has concluded the Princeton schedule for the past 15 years, is set for March 14. The indications are that that if the Tigers go down clawing just once, the Indians will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIGERS, INDIANS PICKED AS LEAGUE VICTORS; CRIMSON SEEN AS ERRATIC | 3/3/1942 | See Source »

Like Tetrazzini, Soprano Calvé tried to cash in on her name with a U.S. vaudeville tour, in 1927. Then she returned to Millau, where she owned a fortress-like château, to raise sheep, train younger singers, entertain elderly gallants. She sold the château before World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Carmen Dies | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...fall to pieces after a flashy start; they dissolve when their small aims are accomplished or when they despair of their big aims; or the members part at a political fork in the road. Definitely, the Post-War Council must avoid over-organization; it must preserve its balance and entertain all viewpoints. The second danger is that the flame of the idea will be confined to Harvard; that the committees will stop short of every state and endowed college from Boston to Los Angeles. If they never forget that their movement is in pitiful infancy until they achieve such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Youth Plans For Peace | 1/13/1942 | See Source »

...only in the daytime was Honolulu active. At night the blackout was complete-blacker than London ever had been. Most people dined at 5:30 and nobody went about after dark. In the beginning, sentries in the streets shot first and challenged afterwards. Kamaainas (long-settled whites) had to entertain themselves with card games and gossip at home in dim-lit, tightly-sealed rooms. No liquor was to be had, and candy sales went up with a rush. The hotspots-from the Royal Hawaiian to the plebeian Venice Cafe were shut tight. Overhead the air patrols constantly thundered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. At War, Calm After Storm | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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