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Meatless. In Washington, the War Food Administration made out its usual paychecks to Employes Mary Bean, George Fruit, Maybert Corn, Samuel G. Salmon, Esther Olive, William Meal and Fairfax Oyster. Mr. Oyster is an expert on peanuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...trucks and giving first aid. Three Chinese casualties were standing by the wall of the operating room waiting for nurses and Friends to carry away the one who had been operated on so they could climb up on the vacant operating table and sigh thankfully as Bawk or Esther began to chloroform them. My body was covered with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking of Operations | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Distinction | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...projected three-volume study of the men who fought the battles of the South's lost cause. Most amusing was Hesketh Pearson's G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously forgotten great man of science Willard Gibbs ($3.50) ; Franz Werfel's Verdi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...Married. Esther Carp, 28, niece of Soviet Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov; and Leo Seligman, 31, employe in a Bridgeport war plant; in Manhattan. In the mid-'30s her father, Sam Carp, now a Bridgeport realtor, was commissioned by Moscow to get two 75,000-ton battleships built for Russia in U.S. shipyards. He had a $100,000,000 authorization from Stalin but the deal fell through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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