Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, ex-bandleader who once campaigned wrapped in a sheet with a goat at his side (TIME, March 18), got the voters' comments on his latter-day habiliments of dullness and dignity. Dull & dignified William F. Devin, incumbent, beat Vic's striped pants off-in an election to decide which would be Seattle's next Mayor. The score: Devin...
...social thesis but the timeless story of family life. Of Solon's five children, one is set apart by her homeliness; one is a born Pharisee; one is a self-conscious beauty; one is an artist; one is a natural cavalier. Dreiser is interested mainly in the two latter, the arch-rebels. Against them Solon Barnes finds sternness and tolerance equally ineffective. His son and daughter, in the struggle to come to life as autonomous human beings, become thieves, and worse. The soberly beautiful family group grows rigid with reluctant tyranny, ugly with fear and deceit. The beloved...
...questions about it, a woman whose husband's death leaves her with the double problem of her sons and her sexiness is in quite a spot. Even if the latter brings on George Brent and the former are the sort who can jitterbug at the age of ten, the maternal instinct makes the conflict near to insoluble. In fact, if it weren't for the ingenuity of the script writer, Barbara Stanwyck might have lost her boys, her reputation, and her mind, as well as her heart...
...During the latter stage of the war Americans were laughed at by their allies for the fruit salad on their chests. Without hearing a shot fired, a man could, by arranging his area ribbons, marksmanship medals, cheap commendations and awards, appear in the eyes of the uninitiate as a combination Sergeant York-Commando Kelly...
...Hospital for its next game tomorrow evening at 7:45 o'clock. Coach Al McCoy's Jayvee quintet also extended its victory string to nine last week, with victories over the Navy Communications School here last Wednesday and Exeter Academy at Exeter on Saturday, with the Crimson taking the latter with a late surge...