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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under First Sea Lord Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley, Commander in Chief of the Home Fleet is Admiral Sir Charles Morton Forbes, 60, a softspoken, blue-eyed, pint-sized gunnery specialist who reached the top without social pull, who likes to prune his own apple trees, whose second wife is a Swede. He saw the carnage at the Dardanelles as executive officer of the Queen Elizabeth, was the late Admiral Earl Jellicoe's fleet gunnery officer at Jutland in the Iron Duke, for which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Royal Navy's Test | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...food served to them. Respectfully submitted. Student Council Committee on Board in the Houses Henry A. Burgess '40, Chairman Langdon Burwell '41 Seth C. Crocker '41 John V. Frank '41 William C. Hurtt '40 Robert A. James '41 James D. Lightbody Jr. '40 Charles O. Porter '41 Morton G. Wurtele...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Council Group-Reports on Inefficient House Dining System | 3/28/1940 | See Source »

Last week in Manhattan Charles Edward Smith, historian (Jazzmen) and friend of America's native rhythms, produced through new General Records Co. an album of barrelhouse tunes played by the greatest surviving barrel-houser-54-year-old Ferdinand ("Jelly Roll") Morton. The album's title is Jetty Roll Morton's New Orleans Memories, and both musically and otherwise Jelly has much of interest to remember...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jelly | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...general wrongness of Genevieve Tabouis was very fine (TIME, Dec. 11). However you say that this remarkable wrong-way prophet is taken more seriously in England and the U. S. A. than in her native France. In London Mme Tabouis is not taken seriously by "Beachcomber" (J. B. Morton), Beaverbrook's amusing columnist for his two-million-circulation Daily Express. To "Beachcomber," Tabouis is Mme Tabouche (of L'Oeuf) who is continually seeking fulfillment of her prophecy that Iceland will march on Bessarabia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1940 | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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