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...smuggled out that way was the one about the phenomenal rise in suicides among French Jews since the Nazi occupation. The bodies of many of these unfortunate people were found one morning floating in Marseilles harbor, and an obliging diplomat smuggled the news to Lisbon in his shaving kit next...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EPIDEMIC KILLS OFF ITALIANS IN NICE, WAR CORRESPONDENT HERE STATES | 11/16/1940 | See Source »

...small bright star at the American College of Surgeons' Clinical Congress in Chicago last week was tiny, twinkling, 77-year-old Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen. She twinkled over a two-foot, mangerlike box. With this box and a kit of surgeon's tools, she ran a surgical kindergarten, showed scores of women doctors how a Caesarean operation is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery Made Plain | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Having missed his chance to fight for Finland because the war ended before he could get there, Jesse C. Carson, 27, grandson of famed Frontiersman Kit, tossed up his Colorado cowpuncher's job, volunteered for Army service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1940 | 11/4/1940 | See Source »

Young People (20th Century-Fox). Legend has established U. S. vaudevillians as loudmouthed, softhearted, pertinacious vagabonds. It has established New Englanders as grim, laconic moralists. According to Young People it takes an act of God to reveal the goodness in either. When Joe and Kit Ballantine (portly Jack Oakie and aging Charlotte Greenwood), a veteran song & dance team, decide to give their dimpled foster daughter Wendy (Shirley Temple, retired) a solid New England background, they leave the footlights for a Vermont farm. In the obvious conflict that ensues, the natives win hands down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 9, 1940 | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

...token of her sovereignty, last week the Coq Rouge gave Patricia Plunkett a beauty kit. To Runner-Up Patricia Suydam (daughter of Realtor Hendrick Suydam & Mrs. Richard A. Cunningham) went a flacon of Hawaiian perfume. To Ridgeley Vermilye of Plainfield, N. J., well back in third place, went a new hat. Meanwhile, 1938 Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier, home from Nassau for Christmas, was seen as usual at Manhattan's La Conga in the morning's early hours. Her current escort is Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters (Peter Arno), twice divorced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Glamor Girl | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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