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However blithe about box office, Broadway has its fears about manpower. Though it has lost fewer big names to the armed services than Hollywood, gone or going are Playwrights Sidney Kingsley (Dead End), Thornton Wilder (Our Town), William Saroyan, Jerome Chodorov (My Sister Eileen), Irwin Shaw (Bury the Dead); Actors Maurice Evans, Burgess Meredith, Lee J. Cobb; top Scene Designers Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager. Worse, Actors' Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Curtain Going Up | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Number one seeded player Al Everts came through without much trouble against Jack Irwin, winning 6-0, 6-4. Two other seeded Varsity men, Ted Cohn and Jim Jenkins, also advanced into the third round with case. Cohn defeating Greenspan 6-2, 6-2 and Jenkins taking Elliston 6-1, 6-4. Hugh Hyde, only other Varsity star in the tournament, has not played his second round match...

Author: By Melvin J. Kessel, | Title: SORLEIN DROPS GAME TO FRESHMAN IN TENNIS | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt had appointed a child-care coordinator: sandy-haired Charles Irwin Schottland of the Children's Bureau. Mr. Schottland went straight to Mr. McNutt's War Manpower Commission for help. His problem: how to overcome the scarcity of servants and of day nurseries. He also had a plan: let the U.S. make grants to States to finance a variety of child-care facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Coordinator for Children | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...Irwin Shaw, short story writer, playwright (1936's anti-war Bury the Dead}, passed his physical examination and was sworn in as a private in the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 20, 1942 | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Married. The Right Rev. Archibald Lang Fleming, 58, the Anglican Church's "Flying Bishop" of the Arctic; and Elizabeth Nelson Lukens, associate headmistress of The Agnes Irwin School near Philadelphia; in Ardmore, Pa.; he for the second time...

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

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