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UNRRA, despite its international character, is predominantly American. The U.S. contributed the lion's share (40%) of its funds. Its main office is in Washington, in a converted apartment building on Du Pont Circle. Its director general is an American: balding, easygoing Herbert H. Lehman, onetime Governor of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: What of UNRRA? | 5/14/1945 | See Source »

...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

People hoped for much, but expected a lot less, from the man with the powerful shoulders and crippled legs who stood before them, tightly gripping the rostrum, on that cloud-hung, windy March 4 in 1933. They had not voted for him; they had voted against Herbert Hoover. They knew him as a pretty good governor of New York, a man with a strong-chinned patrician face and the magic name of Roosevelt, a man with a broad Harvard accent and the wealthy, aloof heritage of Groton and Crum Elbow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roosevelt's Life & Times | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Organized by two graduate students. Henry Popkin 2G and Herbert J. Kramer 1G, the group has planned meetings for alternate Fridays. Programs of the club, whose membership is open to undergraduates, graduates, and faculty members in all departments of the University, will consist of lectures by prominent figures in the field of English, and discussions of the material presented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Matthiessen to Speak At New Literary Club | 4/20/1945 | See Source »

First prize went to Warren Hennrich for "Delights in Xanadu," a group of poems; second prize was awarded to Lyle Glazier for "The Adoloscont" and three poems; and third prize was awarded to Lieutenant Herbert J. Kramer for a poem entitled "33129086--Decased...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poetry Prizes Awarded By International Club | 4/20/1945 | See Source »

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