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...kent be vawter - vawter is in the glesses, and vith lemon on the side has got me beffled complittly. I theenk I vill ask the vaiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Vaudeville in Manhattan | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

Lapidus: For vhat good is it for vhat? It kent be soup - soup ve already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Vaudeville in Manhattan | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

...grandfather of Candidate Dewey. The Lymans' son was the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Katharine Robbins Lyman, who married Warren Delano, maternal grandfather of the President. *When he left the U.S. in 1935, Lindbergh first rented an out-of-the-way 500-year-old house in Sevenoaks, Kent County, England, later bought the barren, out-of-the-way Breton isle of Illiec, lived there for six months near his great & good friend, Scientist Alexis Carrel, now reported held by the F.F.I, as an alleged collaborationist. * In Hollywood, Producer Hunt Stromberg announced plans for a motion picture based...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries, Homebodies, French Footnotes | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...thought that prints could be so seductive, but made into simple, low-necked dresses, worn with bare brown legs, and Tripoli-tanean sandals, they lose all that stuffy, towny look that prints too often have. . . 'Gabriella Sports' is now owned by Countess di Robilant [the former Carolyn Kent of Asheville, N.C.], who . . . makes most of the dresses. . . . There's beautiful, pure silk shantung to be had here (all fabrics are fabulously high-priced), which she uses in lovely colour combinations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Roman Social Season | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Organized Seduction." Alan Kent is a 32-year-old former salesman from Chicago who had moved into radio announcing and comedy when Austen Johnson met him in Manhattan's NBC offices in 1935. Dressy Austen Johnson was born in England in 1909, is vague about what he did between then and the '30s when he began arranging BBC musical programs including one of sweet tunes which he called "Organized Seduction." In 1935 he sailed to the U.S. to do a program for NBC. He was not much impressed with Alan Kent, who had been recommended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jingle All the Way | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

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