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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady in Retirement. Perhaps Broadway's most gifted actress, Laurette Taylor has appeared there only once before (in a revival of Outward Bound) during the last thirteen years. In the popular mind, indeed, her name is entirely linked with a play she starred in 33 years ago-Peg o' My Heart. Actress Taylor played Peg (the work of her husband, prolific Playwright J. Hartley Manners) 600 times on Broadway, 500 in London, then another 500 in Manhattan. To her it was "the worst play that Hartley ever wrote. It was written too much for me. I had everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 9, 1945 | 4/9/1945 | See Source »

...Russian outlets to the south -as, until recently, they were Russia's inlet for Lend-Lease. And adjoining the Arab heartland lie Turkey and Iran - both Mos em but non-Arab -looking out on the Black Sea and the Caspian, which wash at Russia's outward gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Desert Wind | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

Edstrom grants that "the Negro is still not a one hundred percent American citizen, although he has a lot of advantages which he never had before. His whole course has been upward and outward," he adds, however, "and no other race can show comparable progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Newspapers Want College Graduates With Varied Training, Edstrom Declares | 2/6/1945 | See Source »

Nothing but the Best. The only legends which have grown up around Krueger have their origin in his directness and outward severity. He is as much a stickler for military form as though he were in the Prussian army. His jeep driver in the combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Old Soldier | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...speculative London report suggested that the Nazis are using the same pressure principle to crush atoms. The crusher: A "Neuman" demolition charge, which explodes inward instead of outward. Used in a sphere, the Neuman charge might develop pressures of tens of thousands of tons per square inch at the center, perhaps enough to disintegrate an unstable atom such as uranium and release its explosive atomic energy. British scientists believe that such an explosion, though not far-reaching in area, would develop unheard-of violence at the point of impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: V-3? | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

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