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...nothing of rolling on the floor to get them giggling, WBBM technicians begin to record Meet the Missus. Twittering like sparrows, yanking nervously at their girdles, some of Tommie 's girls answer questions about their clothes, husbands, honeymoons, aspirations, frustrations, children, while the rest of them hoot and howl. Perennial query in the Bartlett questionnaire: "If you were to become a motion-picture actress, what actor would you like as your leading man?" Stock answer: Clark Gable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...them fume and threaten; the right to insult was given us under the constitution. Let them howl in protest; we know it is all propaganda. Let them attack the freedom of our press; we shall defend it to the last. We shall never forsake our unbiased, unfettered press which alone can keep our heads above the maclstrom of distortion and infamy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FUROR BOSTONICUS | 6/5/1940 | See Source »

...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Picture: May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...bowels of the Harvard Union, where the clattering of plates and the jangling of silver can be heard but faintly, the addicts of the ivory ball gather round the Green Table, follow the clicking white cue-ball in its geometrical course. There, in the cozy twilight, they howl and argue and relax. When their backs cluster too thickly around the play, they turn and shout for help. They cry for the arbiter of this musky underworld, and from behind the counter a grey old man, watching with cold, steel-blue eyes, rises slowly and shows the boys. And once...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 5/8/1940 | See Source »

Sirs: "Pratt-fallen" (re Sonja)&151;a gem of journalese and a first class howl. However, . . . only one t. . . . R. L. SUTTON, JR. Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1940 | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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