Word: jameses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bangs & Sensible People. Born in Illinois about 50 years ago, Helen Hokinson studied art in Chicago, moved to Manhattan in 1920 and submitted her first cartoon (at a friend's insistence) to The New Yorker in 1925. In 1931, she started collaborating with James Reid Parker, 40, a New...
In the good old days of Rudolph Valentino and John Gilbert, said Novelist Banks, the typical woman, "a creature of emotion," found that the movies gave her emotions an enjoyable vicarious workout. Banks did not try to pin down the turning point, but many a student of the cinema thinks...
White Heat. James Cagney's spectacular comeback in a drama about a mother-dependent gangster (TIME, Sept. 19).
Mrs. James Chesnut was 38 when the Civil War began. Highbred and lively, daughter of a governor of South Carolina and wife of a Confederate Senator, she was the sort of Charleston hostess to whom Jefferson Davis, Stephen Mallory, Alexander Stephens, Robert Toombs and other pillars of the Confederacy told...
Her husband's idea in sending her to Mulberry was to insure her safety. Mary expected to be bored to death. For one thing, her father-in-law, Colonel James Chesnut, was 91, blind and deaf. But, as it turned out, Mary felt neither entirely bored nor entirely safe...