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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speaking, this hardly has a right to pose as a religious film. There is no real contest with evil or with suffering, and the good itself loses half its force, because even the worst people in Going My Way are as sugar-coated as Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Yet it has, inadvertently, a good deal of genuine religious quality, and is often a beautiful piece of entertainment in spite of its Sunny-Jim story. Leo McCarey's leisured, limpid direction and Steve Seymour's splendid sets are partly responsible for this-the coarse lace half-curtains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Playing in a mild drizzle that turned the field into a mud patch, the Harvard team was able to carry the ball over their opponents' goal line but once during the game, when Dunney Smith smashed through the ANZAC defense. John Loos' kick from the 25 yard line was successful, adding two points to the three scored by Smith a minute earlier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANZAC TEAM WINS IN RUGBY 12 TO 5 | 4/18/1944 | See Source »

...months the shoulder patch of the Ninth Air Force has been bright on the U.S. uniforms visible in British trains, pubs, and village dances. But not until last week was there official announcement that the outfit had been moved from the Mediterranean to join the new Allied Expeditionary Air Forces under Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory as part of the Tactical (close support) Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Ninth in Britain | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 28, 1944 | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

...Chiang visited the U.S. last year she paid relatively little attention to her brother, despite the fact that he was officially Foreign Minister of his country. T. V. had little or no influence on her. Packed Board. T. V. left the U.S. last fall, returned to Chungking, failed to patch up his differences with Chiang Kaishek. Last week, the Bank of China's board voted to increase its membership from twelve to 25, thus gave the anti-Soong, pro-Kung group decisive voting power. T. V. was forced out; H. H. was handed a post which will enable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tempest in Chungking | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

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