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From his car Franklin Roosevelt, with a sailor's appreciative eye, took in the trim new subchaser PC-467, snugged tidily to the wharf, her brightwork glistening in the hot September sun. Radio technicians placed a battery of microphones across his lap. Said the President of the U.S. to the Crown Princess of Norway and the people of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To An Ally | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...Navy, they will play a medley of sea songs including every chanty on the books. Popeye the Sailor, and, in fact, anything that smacks of the briney deep. Then, if enough show up, they will serenade the Army men in uniform who have seats with songs like the "Caisson Song." From there, they will move over in front of the Harvard stands, and will introduce new Freshman to Crimson gridiron tunes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Speed Up Depletes Band; '46 Reinforcements Wanted | 9/26/1942 | See Source »

...pink-eared Norman Tokar, 19, has long played a bit part in the script, long understudied Ezra, sounds enough like him to be his twin. He has played small stage roles in Delicate Story, Lamented Life of Riley, Days of Our Youth, is currently featured in the subway circuit Sailor Beware. He also writes and sells gangster scripts bristling with argot. Knowing the script depends on Henry, Norman does his best to be a businesslike copy of Ezra. House Jameson, who plays Father Aldrich, coaches the new Henry out from behind every eight ball. It is worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: New Henry Aldrich | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

They will sing of the sailor and soldier I know And tell of the deeds that were done

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Forty Hours on Makin | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Colonel William Franklin Knox stands for the war effort in a very particular way. A grand old soldier and dilettante sailor, patriotic American and courageous shouter, competent executive and tyro at strategy, a die-hard Republican who entered the Cabinet for a show of unity in the dark days after the fall of France, Knox is a symbol of the confusion, amateurism, divided authority, the lack of broad planning-and also of the good will -that characterized Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Running the War | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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