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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come your Science department hasn't had an article re Lindbergh's perfecting of his mechanical heart ? Proof of it is scattered all through his too frequent radio speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 11, 1940 | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

This system is open to abuse if the $37.50-a-week casters relax their ethics. Frequent have been the charges of corruption in Central: that extras buttonholed casters on the street, slipped them a few dollars; that they mowed casters' lawns; that they presented casters with money orders on Hollywood stores; that they sent their clothes to be cleaned at specified cleaners with currency deposited in specified pockets. Year ago these charges were taken up by the Hollywood Reporter, which revealed that a local detective agency had been hired by the Screen Actors Guild to ferret out any misdemeanors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Standing Committee | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...over 45 years, on his frequent trips to Canada, England and the U. S., he raised enough money to build six hospitals, outfit seven nursing stations, four ships. On one of his trips from England he met a "handsome girl in black," proposed to her before he knew her name, took her back to Labrador as his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Grenfell of Labrador | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

McCoy often describes his program as a family affair, makes frequent mention of his relatives, who provide, he says, his listening audience. He also likes to dwell on the doings of his dog, sometimes known as Only-Game-Fish-Swim-Upstream. Celebrated are his ribaldries. On winter nights he has announced that the cold has compelled Ripley to take the brass monkey inside, occasionally instructs actors who happen in on his show to recite "anything from Shakespeare to Dr. Wharton's Almanac." A favorite of Manhattan sophisticates, he has introduced on his show a lady glass-eater, who quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The McCoy | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...look at O'Brien's makeup, she pleased the publicity department by admitting: "I expected him to come up and make love to me." Such authenticity is not the hallmark of Knute Rockne-All American. Faithful and respectful as it may be to the Rockne biography, its frequent newsreel shots of Notre Dame at football are filled with chronological inaccuracies such as showing the lateral pass as a potent Army offensive weapon in 1925, goalposts in the end zones in a game supposed to have taken place in 1913. In 1940 spectators with weightier matters on their minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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