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...work of the Radio Section has been acknowledged by a torrent of military fan mail. Comedian Bob Hope closed one Command Performance broadcast with the remark that if the boys wanted Songstress Ginny Simms to purr another number, "just tear off the top of a Zero and send it in." The boys sent a big hunk of wing with the Rising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I. Shows | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...Cars purr past four wickets (admission: adults, 40?; children, 10?), proceed to their places on a series of curved ridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Drive-Ins | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Purr. In Winchester, Va., Robert Wilt complained about the whine in his motor. Mechanics took out a kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

...wise wife who knows her own husband, Katharine Cornell brings to her role force and personality, but never the glint of Gertrude Lawrence or the purr of Ina Claire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...statesmen of Capitol Hill were rudely jolted by the energy and ingenuity of Corcoran & Cohen in the days when the firm was steering New Deal legislation-Ben Cohen sitting at committee chairmen's elbows as prompter at hearings, Tom Corcoran whisking through Capitol corridors to trade, purr, cajole, threaten or crack down for votes. Many a Congressman sensed that these high-powered lobbyists for the President had a low opinion of most U. S. politicians. More shocking to traditional statesmen-especially to old-line, locally intrenched Democrats-was the conception of a Liberal party which Corcoran & Cohen helped Client...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Janizariat | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

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