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...businessmen grasped the dimensions of total war sooner than most labor leaders in 1941. But the quickest to do so were not business' social servants, the $1-a-year ambassadors to the New Deal. They were the Old Guard, whose hatred of Roosevelt kept them out of Washington altogether...
...White Seaport of Archangel "hand over fist." But he said that ice was already forming in the harbor. The Russians have assured Britain and the U.S. that Archangel's two new icebreakers can keep this route clear. For the time being it is the best and quickest...
...Gerard, who wrote a scathing review of Kieran's Nature Notes (TIME, April 14), took it all back, said he really thought the book was wonderful. ∙∙ In Manhattan, Author Sinclair ("Red") Lewis made his Broadway debut as director and angel of the season's quickest flop: one performance. Critics called Good Neighbor "immensely dull." Said stage-struck Lewis who lost $25,650: "They were right. When you get that universal a comment there is no use fighting...
With 250-350 locally recruited employes, Cohen and Crowley put on one of the quickest construction jobs Georgia had ever seen. Empire drove the first pile on May 31, poured some $800,000 into its Savannah Shipyards. Last week three shipways, four craneways were nearly complete. The keel for the first of twelve Victory ships will be laid about Dec. 1-less than two months after the Maritime Commission, finally relenting, granted the contract. Also under way: a $1,500,000 housing project for Savannah's 4,000 prospective shipyard employes...
...cinema's quickest-rising starlet of the year, tiny, honey-haired honey Constance Keane Detlie (Veronica Lake), gave birth to a daughter (6 lb., 2 oz.) at a Hollywood hospital. Her husband is Art Director John Detlie. Same day her leading man, William Holden, was in the hospital for an appendectomy...