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World War I moppets rallied to the defense of freedom by planting Victory Gardens and licking their platters clean. This year the Jack Spratlike platter came back. In Glencoe, Ill., Margot, 5, and John Chinnock, 7, with their father, formed the Clean Plate Club, pledged themselves always to "finish all the food on my plate and drink all of my milk, unless excused . . . until Uncle Sam has licked the Japs and Hitler. . . ." Penalty for failure: "I will turn in my button." Club records last week showed only one recalcitrant among 200 members: five-year-old Betsy Brown, who refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clean Plate Club | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...program called it a concerto, but the soloist was a soprano. For 24 minutes, off & on, Margot Rebeil warbled wordlessly, while the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under plump Eugene Goossens wove strands of tone around her. Conductor Goossens was giving his audience not only a new work, but a new wrinkle in composition: a full-fledged concerto for voice and orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Concerto in Ah | 5/4/1942 | See Source »

Peter Churchmouse - Margot Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Into Manhattan's plushy La Rue restaurant went the ex-Countess Margot de la Falaise (exwife of Count Alain, brother of Marquis Henri, ex of Gloria Swanson. Constance Bennett), together with Dukie, her bulldog, Paul O. Buckley, her husband of three days, and four friends. Because Dukie was charged $3 for a dinner which she thought he didn't get, she slapped the proprietor's face and everybody ended up in Night Court. ∙∙Tobacco Road's longtime Jeeter Lester, James Barton, was arrested by the S.P.C.A. charged with letting nine of his dogs live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Dog House | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

...speeding at Fort Custer, prohibited from driving on the grounds for a month, put on K.P. . . . In Chicago, ex-Halfback Tom Harmon said he was about to propose to Elyse Knox, 23, a cinemactress he had met in Hollywood. Tom's girl used to be Michigan Coed Margot Thorns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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