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...remarkable guy in more ways than one--he is remarkable for himself and remarkable for his relatives. His sister recently married his father-in-law, so that makes her his mother-in-law and his father-in-law is his brother-in-law. His wife is his sister's daughter now-is other words, his wife is his niece...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...mild-looking German engineer who has long been risking his neck in Europe's anti-Nazi underground, but is patronized by his wife's rich Washington family when he visits the U.S. In the film his wife is Bette Davis. Muller's highhanded socialite mother-in-law is Lucile Watson. Donald Woods is her son, who is bursting with warm American optimism when he isn't ogling pretty House Guest Geraldine Fitzgerald...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Sep. 6, 1943 | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Law. In Fall River, Mass., George Russell explained to police why he was operating a still: liquor prices were high, and his mother-in-law, 99, "needs a little belt now and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

...quarts of foodstuff - if we have several extra chickens we 'pop' them into cans. Perhaps you have heard of Wendell Willkie. He is a friendly man. Some time ago the Salvation Army captain asked my husband to collect some salvage at the home of Mrs. Wilk, mother-in-law of Willkie. That evening my husband rang the doorbell. Mr. Willkie answered it. He is very friendly. He was visiting there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Dear Red ... | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

Customers want lure, and the little boites are adding token chorus lines, the big spots sultrier ones. Even more, customers want laughs: the comics are the town's brightest notes and biggest draws. (Most ubiquitous gag: "My mother-in-law is the Gestapo in bloomers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Better Late Than Ever | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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