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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a no-defeat record behind him, Allen was understandably anxious to duck out before something might come along to spoil it. But for all his hurry, he left behind at least one work for the new Republican Congress to remember him by-a bill to simplify and reorganize the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Short Service | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Byrnes at 67 had accomplished the big job of 1946, and in so doing he had grown in stature more than any other public figure of the year. As the year began many regarded him as a mere fixer. Yet by patient, purposeful tinkering with the details of the satellite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Year of the Bullbat | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

His career had lasted more than half a century. He had been a vaudeville juggler and a big name in musicomedy for decades before the sound track was invented. But millions would remember only one W. C. Fields-the gentle grifter who convulsed them in the '30s as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Gentle Grifter | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sincere Sounds | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

"Admiral Kimmel asked how I thought this air attack could be prevented. I told him, 'Admiral, you will have to have patrols out at least five hundred miles daily.' He replied . . . 'Well, of course we have neither the personnel nor material to do that.' I pondered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fifteen Guns | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

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