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...obnoxious little girl named Jackie Horner should have been left in a corner; and Cole Porter's score, one of his poorest, is hampered by the addition of even worse numbers. The only relief from the tedium is Virginia O'Brien, with more material and less dead-pan, and Lena Horne, whose rendition of "Just One of Those Things" leaves you breathless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 10/10/1942 | See Source »

...rolled up in a rug under his mother's bed. They locked up Stokley Delmar Hart, president of the Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America. They arrested F. H. Hammurabi Robb, director of the World Wide Friends of Africa. And they pinched Mme. Mittie Maud Lena Gordon, president general of the Peace Movement of Ethiopia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Takcihashi's Blacks | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

Moanin' Low (Lena Home; Victor; 8 sides). Old favorites, such as Stormy Weather, The Man I Love, sung sensationally by the soulful Negro torchsinger, lately of Manhattan's Café Society, now in Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Apr. 20, 1942 | 4/20/1942 | See Source »

Birth of the Blues (Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street; Victor). An album of W. C. Handy tunes as played by the popular radio act, sung by Lena Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: September Records | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...second Plan opened new mines and industries, with ports in the Arctic at the mouth of the Lena and Kolyma Rivers. Later defense industries and power plants were constructed as far east as Lake Baikal, new oil fields opened in the Urals. Most railroad construction under the Plans was in the East, and as population followed production, agriculture and food industries followed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Center Shifted | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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