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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blaze of Glory. In Barren, Wis., a hen laid an egg measuring 13 inches around (the long way), died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: To Hell and Out Again | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Pugnacious, pug-nosed Publisher Eleanor ("Cissie") Patterson, whose Washington Times-Herald is sometimes referred to as "The Hen House," last week wound up one of her mussiest barnyard fights. In a front-page box she announced that she had got rid of Columnists Pearson & Allen (Washington Merry-Go-Round) because they had made "poisonous attempts" to "smear" General MacArthur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Cissie and Drew | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Everyone knows the story on which Randall Thompson has based his little opera. It is Kipling's tale of "The Butterfly That Stamped," of the hen-pecked butterfly who in desperation boasted that he could conjure away Solomon's palace by stamping his foot--and did. Thompson has dramatized the story as simply as possible, and produced a delightful blend of humor and fantasy. Musically his work is no less simple, being based on a halfdozen or so leading melodies. The music at times smacks strongly of Handel, especially in the spirited little military prelude with its trumpet flourishes...

Author: By J. A. B., | Title: PLAYGOER | 4/14/1942 | See Source »

...Tribune dramatized its own nobility. Around a forthright central figure curiously reminiscent of a Johnnie Walker whiskey ad revolved the Tribune's detractors in their ugliest guise: Spiders H. V. Kaltenborn and Walter Winchell with microphones; Moths Marshall Field and Frank Knox; Skunk Harold Ickes; cigaret-smoking Hen Dorothy Thompson; a lean crow representing the New York Herald Tribune, which dared recently to comment on some of the Chicago Tribune's antics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Righteousness Unafraid | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

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