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Quiet Type. But Mild & Bitter had no record of hair-raising escapes. Her saga was one of good luck and almost monotonous efficiency. She had lugged 166 different airmen to battle; 26 were decorated, but not one got a Purple Heart. During her robust career she acquired some 50 flak holes, but never any damage that Bill Stuart and his ground crew could not repair overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: First Hundred | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

Most striking Losch oil: Saga in Five Movements, which was five paintings in one and an allegory of the life of woman to boot. In it Woman 1) emerges hopefully from adolescence, 2) meets a lover under a tree in Eden, 3) wanders in solitude, 4) swings on a symbolic bar between heaven and earth, 5) returns to a home and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Losch Launched | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

First of all, Ginger Rogers while a fine actress, is no Gertrude Lawrence, and certainly cannot put over a song the way she could. The "Saga of Jenny," one of the most amusing songs over to be sung in a movie, is still good, but it doesn't make the hit it did when Gerty sang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 3/14/1944 | See Source »

Life with Father. Gay saga of a peppery paterfamilias during Manhattan's brownstone age (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...original score, and still giving satisfaction, are My Heart Stood Still, Thou Swell, On a Desert Island, I Feel At Home With You. Show-stopping new song, thanks to Lorenz Hart's funny lyrics and Vivienne Segal's brilliant delivery, is To Keep My Love Alive, a saga of a lady who industriously murdered her mates seriatim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Half-New Musical in Manhattan | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

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