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...hour of action and dialogue working up to a point where he can get Judy Garland seated at a piano and Mickey Rooney saying. "Oh, even if you can't, let me hear you just for the fun of it," and then she is forced to warble a flock of notes that the Hollywood songwriters bunched together between floor shows at the Brown Derby. Virginia Wilder doesn't help. Well, there is no use in going into gruesome details. Just take our advice and speed next Sunday afternoon listening to the symphony...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/6/1942 | See Source »

Grab Bag. Near Oklahoma City a flock of startled ducks flew into a duck hunter, who grabbed with one hand, bagged a mallard drake alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Over 300 delegates and observers from scores of colleges and high schools in the United States will flock to the University on December 27 at the invitation of the Harvard Liberal Union, when three progressive student organizations hold a National Merger Convention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progressive Student Groups To Plan Merger In Convention Here | 12/17/1941 | See Source »

...talking of next year's harvest of tourists to Vermont, Yosemite, Miami, Williamsburg. Suddenly the sound of airplanes came from high above us. Hardly a soul looked up. I searched but could see nothing till two small clouds of glistening white like snowflakes showed where a tremendous flock of swans or geese had been split into confusion by three Airacobras. The birds formed again, melted out of sight. The planes vanished in the blue void. The Lords and Ladies of Tours talked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

Hunters. In Wheeler, Ore., an excited hunter stumbled, fell when a flock of geese honked overhead. His gun went off, bagged three. In Pittsfield, Mass., a hunter fired his shotgun at a squirrel in a tree, missed, brought down four raccoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

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