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...many a Hausfrau, wrinkling into middle age, this saga of the popular author of slick, sleek magazine pap was a thrill beyond her daily hopes. They quickly bought up almost every Ursula Parrott book on the drugstore shelves. But what produced a bitter-sweet romantic sighing in Ursula's readers fetched another emotion in the breast of the FBI. Ursula was charged not just with love's old sweet song gone boogie-woogie but with aiding the desertion of an army prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The New Ursula Parrott Story | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

Monty Woolley has doffed his smirk and wisecracking manner, but he's retained all his spark and individuality as the gruff title character of the "Pied Piper." The saga of one Englishman's battle to escape the rush of the Nazi armies through France, and of the waifs he picks up on his way, the "Pied Piper" is an original and highly effective film account of one of the dramatic episodes of this...

Author: By J. H. K., | Title: MOVIEGOER | 11/19/1942 | See Source »

Nonetheless, white-haired W. R. Lovett -whose doctor once prescribed golf for his jitters-thinks his six-month saga was more of a strain than one man can afford to put on his nervous system. Whatever he gets out of it, the La Paz, he now says firmly, is his "one and only salvage operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: One and Only | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

Kaiser's trip to Washington was a saga in itself. When the train that he was supposed to take pulled out of the Los Angeles Union Station, he was just starting to broadcast a Labor Day message from the Beverly Hills Hotel, taking his cargo-plane visions right to the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Appointment in Washington | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

Life With Father. Amusing saga of the brownstone-front era, celebrating Clarence Day's father and everybody's family (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

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