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Since the Navy's appropriation of the Union, she has virtually been driven from pillar to post. Eating is her greatest problem. Fastidious tastes, she found, must be sacrificed if her wallet is not thickly interlined

Author: By Maud Eckert, | Title: Females Fill Halls, Steps, Lawns or Yard, But Who Are They, Anyway? | 7/22/1942 | See Source »

While Beaufighters tangled with the Messerschmitts, torpedo carriers bored in on the Eugen. At least one tin fish got home, struck her fairly. A "great pillar of dirty black smoke" gushed from her superstructure and she shuddered under two mighty explosions. In the hurlyburly, Beaufighters swung down out of the sky, plastered the destroyers with bomb and machine gun and the force streaked for home. The British reported losing nine planes, knocking down five Germans. Said Berlin: "Unsuccessful-British losses 29 planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Prince Steps Out | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Work on Betfe Davis' new picture was interrupted for a possible two weeks when a friend's Scottie nipped her on the nose. Caninamorous Bette is a pillar of the Tailwaggers' Foundation. // For an alleged kick and a blow with a golf club a caddy sued U.S. Treasurer William Alexander Julian (who autographs all paper money) for $10,000. // Errol Flynn collapsed with nervous exhaustion, was hospitalized in Hollywood. // Lightweight Champ Levy Jenkins got a collection of cuts and bruises when he lost control of his motorcycle in Hackensack, N.J., roared off the road and took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hollywood Dollar-Dolors | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Died. Nicholas ("Collective Security") Titulescu, 57, towering, trigger-witted Rumanian diplomat, picturesque pillar of the League of Nations in its palmy days, six times his country's pro-French, pro-democratic Foreign Minister, leader with Eduard Benes in the late Little Entente; of pernicious anemia resulting from tuberculosis; in exile, in Cannes, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 24, 1941 | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

...distance, a low rumbling burst into a roar as a climbing pillar of flame shot skywards from the oil tanks on the docks. Incredulously, St. Maloans listened as the sound of gunfire rolled up from the harbor, ducked wildly for shelter as British bombers and fighter planes slanted down to their targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Raids and Refugees | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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