Word: martins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abetted many a vulgar nudge and giggle, but nobody ever thought of suppressing him as a menace to public morals. Nevertheless, last week that is just what happened to him. NBC cut Eddie Cantor off the air, in the middle of his act. In Manhattan he and Singer Nora Martin were telecasting an old tune, We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me, which Cantor sang in the 1941-42 Broadway musical, Banjo Eyes. NBC found some of the lyrics and some of the comedian's bodily illustrations of them, "objectionable...
...Bougainville jungles white and colored troops live together in soldierly understanding, TIME Correspondent Robert Martin reported last week. Units of the 93rd Division, first all-Negro infantry division to be sent overseas in this war, had fought and acquitted themselves with honor...
...superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus. Nimble performances: Elisabeth Bergner (The Two Mrs. Carrolls), Margaret Sullavan (The Voice of the Turtle), Mary Philips in Chicken Every Sunday. Actresses, in a sense, had other fish to fry. Five of them turned playwright; one, Ruth Gordon, rang the bell with Over...
Sidney Hillman's zealots did contribute much "educational" work before Starnes fell in Alabama. But they had much to learn-their Alabama P.A.C. office opened too late to get its workers registered to vote. And in Texas, Martin Dies screamed bloody murder about a $250,000 C.I.O. campaign to "get him." Snorted Sidney Hillman: "We haven't spent 7? to beat Dies...
Hitler Gang (Robert Watson, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten, Martin Kosleck; TIME...