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...King and Queen she toured London's bomb-gutted East End. In lofty St. Paul's she bowed her head before the ornate sarcophogi of Nelson and Wellington; in a cavernous bomb shelter (8,000 capacity) she was particularly interested in the children's toothbrush rack. When she got to the Red Cross's Washington Club on Curzon Street, the American doughboys greeted her with shouts of "Hi, Eleanor." In a short speech in the cafeteria-filled with the good smell of hot coffee and doughnuts-she made a motherly promise to the troops: warmer socks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Return Visit | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Chenoweth to Line aerial won a tight game for the Eliot Elephants in the last minutes of the final quarter of yesterday's second inter-House contest. Final score was 7-0, as a second pass loosed by Chenoweth, this time to Dorsey, found its mark to rack up the extra point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELEPHANTS WIN 7-0; DUNSTER GAINS TIE | 10/31/1942 | See Source »

...brief while, triumphs. But gradually it becomes apparent that evil forces are struggling within her for expression. Strange notes and rhythms creep in, the melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into Tea for Two may creep a few bars of Debussy's Clair de Lune. Says wide-eyed Hazel: "I just can't help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hot Classicist | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...nonexistent for over five years. A jam band like Frankie's was a big risk for the Savoy, as their clientele was used to small jump bands, whose only virtue lay in six arrangements cribbed from Basic. If Newton's boys started the evening with any arrangements in their rack, there wasn't a sheet of paper in sight by ten. Fortunately the band went over tremendously. Weeks became months. The Savoy jammed and was jammed, nightly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWING | 9/9/1942 | See Source »

Quick were Old Gold's silver penmen to start the backfire. Reader's Digest's July issue was still on top of the rack in the bathrooms of American homes when Old Gold hit the newspapers with full-page advertisements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Backfire | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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