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Songtress for Duchin's orchestra will be the beauteous June Robbins. Dancing will pause at midnight for the "Spread" proper, to be consumed in the courtyard, which "will be lighted by indirect lighting and the moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUCHIN PLAYS AT '40 SPREAD | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...northern suburbs of Paris, meanwhile, police rounded up 19 factory workers charged with operating a Communist network for distributing subversive pamphlets. A decree law of Sept. 26 makes illegal "activity having the direct or indirect object of propagating the watchwords emanating from or relating to the Third International" of Moscow. Daily arrests of Communists are now the rule, and French police have made over 11,000 raids on suspects since break of war, have seized as much as two tons of Communist propaganda in a raid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud v. Communazis | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...upset for the Crimson. The Hoddermen have probably been a bit overrated over since that creditable display against the Orange and Black stickmen. Later, the Tigers were cuffed around considerably by Canadian teams, but the 7 to 3 pasting they handed out to Dartmouth in Hanover gave another indirect boost to Harvard hockey...

Author: By Donold Peddia, | Title: What's His Number? | 2/17/1940 | See Source »

...Indirect reason for Mabel's salon comeback was sinus trouble. In Manhattan to consult a specialist (he discovered an infected tooth), she was convinced by her son, Novelist John Evans, that a salon is needed. Mabel hopes to get a crowd like the old one ("They were young. They were magnetic. They had radiance."), is sure there are "youngish people who crave for something more satisfying than cafe society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mabel's Comeback | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...giving Mr. Siepmann a Harvard title, which will prove an open sesame in the circles in which he will move, the University made a tactical blunder. In these days of indirect propaganda, the coloring of news dispatches and radio programs is all-important: it has a cumulative effect upon the mental climate of the people. If Britain is successful in convincing the United States that it must step in and save the cause of world civilization, Harvard can boast of having contributed to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITANNIA RULES THE AIR WAVES | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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