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The course of true love continued its proverbial twisting path yesterday, at least as far as the Wellesley and Harvard Freshmen were concerned, when the proposed railroad excursion to the environs of Lake Waban ran a foul of the unsettled conditions that have accompanied Wellesley's wartime acceleration.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Jaunt to Wellesley Cancelled, But Some Persist | 8/31/1942 | See Source »

Death pervades each of Virginia Woolf's best books. In Jacob's Room a dead young man's life fades in other people's memories like a match streak on a tepid stove lid. In Mrs. Dalloway an image of all London shines and synchronizes beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes on Virginia Woolf | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

A brush with the Gestapo nearly ends the Piper's tour, but, at least in Hollywood, Englishmen like Woolley always win through. His children's crusade, scripted by Producer Nunnally Johnson from Nevil Shute's novel of the same name, is too episodic for all-out drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

Operaman Gallo keeps out of the red by paring expenses to the bone. Instead of having an executive staff, he handles all decisions and details himself, working at a rolltop desk in a mousy Broadway office building. He pays no fancy salaries: minimum for principals is $40 a performance. On...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera in the Black | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

My Favorite Blonde (Paramount) is sun-kissed Madeleine Carroll, nut-brown as a honey bear from her recent Bahaman excursion (TIME, March 9). This time she is the favorite of Comic Bob Hope, who blissfully lets her kick him around for ten reels of good slapsticky melodrama which all concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

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