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...When Homer's lyre was plucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Laurels While You Wait | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Born. To Ruby Keeler, 35, light-footed dancing star of cinemusicals in the heavy-footed '30s, onetime wife of pop-eyed Mammy-Crooner Al Jolson; and John Homer Lowe, 33, Pasadena broker and wartime navy lieutenant: their third child, first son. Name: John Lowe III. weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...centuries of Biblical scholarship and discovery of new texts which followed the King James version (1611), which was itself a revision of elder versions, not a new translation. But its English was awkward-its translators mauled the English language by following the Greek literally, like a dull schoolboy rendering Homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Bible, Re-Revised Version | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...fight this argument, Rollins hired former U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, and North Carolina hired ex-Governor Oliver Max Gardner. The Supreme Court turned down the Ackland family, left only Rollins and North Carolina in the running...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fight for a Fortune | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Churchill, burrowing his toes in Florida's sand. In Washington there was the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee, its Republican members eager to burrow into what pledges, if any, Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill had exchanged before Dec. 7, 1941. The temptation was too strong for Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson to resist. Hopefully he moved, "in utter seriousness," that the committee ask the former Prime Minister to be a witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: Tempting Target | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

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