Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Coleman, however, is rather saturated in obscurity unless you follow jazz very closely. One reason is that he was in Europe for a long while until the war broke out. He has since played trumpet with Andy Kirk, Joe Sullivan, and is now with his own trio in some New York night club that I can't remember at the moment. I've never had much opportunity to hear Bill, but judging from "Bill Coleman Blues," made in France he is a remarkable soloist...
...able Correspondent Betty Kirk (Covering the Mexican Front) observed, Mexico had found nationalism under Avila Camacho and war. Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name...
Jonny Davis (Clark Gable) and his kid brother Kirk (Robert Sterling) are ace war correspondents. Both are in love with bright-topped Paula Lane (Lana Turner), also an ace war correspondent. The trio's assignments take them from Manhattan to French Indo-China and Manila. But most of the time they are busier with their luckless love affair. Their story is mainly a set of cues for the sort of hard-boiled mating-dance at which Mr. Gable is an amiable virtuoso. In Manhattan Jonny makes love to Paula, then jilts her. In Indo-China Paula makes love...
Forest Lawn also boasts a huge, earthquake-proof mausoleum inspired by Campo Santo in Genoa. Its Wee Kirk o' the Heather exactly reproduces the church where Annie Laurie worshipped. Its Little Church of the Flowers reproduces Stoke Poges, where Gray wrote his Elegy. At Forest Lawn, says the prospectus, "undertaking is combined with all forms of interment in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement for everything...
...shall not win." Said the new Archbishop of Canterbury in a letter to the London Times: "To many of us it seems that what is needed is not a new political device, but a new temper of mind and a new spiritual approach." John Foster Dulles and Walter Van Kirk, chairman and secretary, respectively, of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace (TIME, March 16), emphasized the lack on their return to the U.S. from a month's meetings with British leaders of church & state. Lawyer Dulles, veteran of almost...