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...days Washington and the U.S. Lave hissed with rumors of WAAC immorality and misconduct, which have made many women reluctant to enlist. O'Donnell gave the rumors wings and beak, reporting the rumors and then refuting them in such a way as to leave doubt whether he was taking it back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: O'Donnell's Foul | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...which rain dripped through the leaky roof, was a crude boxlike arena, 12 ft. square, with an old piece of canvas on the floor. A dirty white blanket was spread on an oil drum, to receive the dead body of the loser. A bucket and sponge were ready to lave the winner's wounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Dog Fight | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...celebrated scientists lave written popular books about their own specialties. Anthropologist Earnest Albert Hooton (Up from the Ape) and Astronomer Harlow Shapley (Flights from Chaos) are exceptions. But in general relatively obscure men, journalists with solid scientific backgrounds or university scientists with a flair for journalism have taken the job of making science "understanded of the people." Among such U. S. interpreters of science three men are particularly outstanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Understanding Without Stars | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Married. Evelyn Lave, 34, English actress (Bitter Sweet), divorced wife of English Comedian Sonnie Hale; and Frank Lawton, 30, English actor (Cavalcade, One More River) ; at Yuma, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 17, 1934 | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

Evensong (Gaumont-British). Adapted from a novel by Beverley Nichols and a play by Nichols and Edward Knoblock, this picture mournfully examines the career of an opera singer (Evelyn Lave).* Irish-born Maggie O'Neill puts aside an Irish sweetheart for art's sake. At the behest of the impresario who launches her, the singer takes the name Irela. After a brilliant command performance in Vienna, she is about to run off with the Archduke Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

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