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...less than an hour. Two by two the newly elected and re-elected marched forward along the worn green carpet to the president's chair, received a quick, hard handshake from Vice President Henry Wallace, whose unmanageable grey hair closed like a shutter over his forehead with each stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The 79th Sits | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...Regrets. The man who will be the 99th occupant of the Throne of St. Augustine in Canterbury received the press around the Christmas tree in Fulham Palace. His Lordship, a bald, long-eared, thin-lipped man, shoved the oldfashioned, gold-rimmed spectacles from his hooked nose to his forehead, jokingly lamented the terrifying job of moving in wartime, seriously lamented that anyone new should have to go to Lambeth Palace just now. Said he: "My great regret is that there should be this vacancy to fill. I knew Dr. Temple from the time when I was an undergraduate at Oxford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: 99th Archbishop | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...famed Hollywood comedian sat uneasily in the witness stand last week and considered the far-from-comic aspects of ingratitude. Charles Spencer Chaplin, 55, his platinum hair damp against his perspiring forehead, saw himself as an ill-used man. Three years ago, he had impulsively befriended an auburn-haired, freckle-nosed girl from Detroit named Joan Berry. There was a misty quality in the girl's shy brown eyes that made him think she might have picture possibilities. As it turned out, she didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just a Peter Pan | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...Goldblatt's case: 1) Trumbull and Lafayette were friends and fellow officers in the American Army during the Revolution; 2) from known movements of Lafayette and Trumbull, the Officer must have been painted after Trumbull returned from Europe-and the Officer shows a treatment of lighting on forehead and hair which distinctly imitates a style of English Portraitist Thomas Gainsborough, who was showing in London at the time; 3) typical Trumbull traits in the Officer are straight-line highlights on buttons, the peculiar method of coloring the rectangular collar of the uniform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Trumbull Case | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

They were armed and clothed with U.S. equipment, drilled English-style, saluted either flat-handed like the British, or finger-tips-to-forehead, G.I.-fashion. Two of the three top commanders were men from the U.S., most of the battalion leaders, Canadian. Most top sergeants were Canadian; most junior officers, from below the border. Troops from the two countries got along together, despite the pay differential in favor of the U.S. soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: The Black Devils | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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