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...Alley (20th Century-Fox) is Cinema Historian Darryl Zanuck's latest peek into the annals of U. S. song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 9, 1940 | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Warner Brothers, Haller's single Technicolor experience with G. W. T. W. has won him recognition as the dean of the field. Like most photographers, Haller's hobby is photography, and he is now building a swimming pool near his San Fernando Valley home with a peek hole in one side for experiments in marine photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Picture Man's Picture | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...Bears, winners of the International League playoffs: the 22nd annual Little World Series; for the third time; defeating the Louisville Colonels, winners of the American Association playoffs; four games to two; at Ruppert Stadium, Newark, N. J. Next spring, seven of Newark's biggest Bears, including Pitcher Steve Peek, who won 16 of his last 17 games, will try out with the New York Yankees, their parent club, which finished third in the American League this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...middle of the week, no one was as much interested in casualties as in the election results. Official results would not be announced until September, but it was expected that after meeting last week the juntas computadoras (vote-counting boards) would let the public have a preview peek at the count. As if the opposition candidate had any hopes of winning in spite of the preposterously fixed election, the Government assembled truckloads of pistoleros to keep Almazanistas from getting nosy. One Government spokesman was admirably frank. Said he, apparently in English, to Jack O'Brine of the New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Unofficial Official Results | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

What with traditional naval secrecy and last week's accent on fifth columns, the Navy made the launching of Washington VI as private as was decently possible. Four miles of the Delaware River were temporarily closed to shipping, lest passing sailors get a peek at the secret superstructure. Philadelphia police and FBI agents kept tabs on the 35,000 (mostly Navy yard workers, their families, naval personnel) who were admitted to the Yard for the big baptism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Sixth Washington | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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