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...egregious piece of misinformation about the British Navy was published last week by the New York Times, which labors scrupulously to satisfy Secretary Knox. It published a picture of a British sailor being invalided home (he came into New York Harbor aboard the Empress of Asia) and captioned it "a bearded British tar whose ship was sunk in the Battle of Crete. . . ." All readers who glanced at the nameband on the sailor's hat (see cut, p. 45) got the erroneous information that H.M.S. Warspite had been sunk in Crete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: MR. KNOX'S CENSORSHIP | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Hired by the cinema industry to represent it in the Senate investigation of alleged Hollywood warmongering was Attorney Wendell L Wlllkie....Strapping ex-Sailor Stirling Hayden, blond rising screen star (TIME, Feb. 17), turned up in Gloucester, Mass, with a pair of California automobile license plates, dumped them into the harbor, swore he was washed up with Hollywood..... Maureen O'Hara followed the suit of Brenda Marshall and William Holden, had her appendix taken out... Deanna Durbin got laryngitis...Ralph Bellamy and Pat O'Brien helped two lifeguards struggling with a riptide rescue a foundering swimmer.... Under serious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: He & She | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...pump. A message from Oil Coordinator Harold Ickes shed no light. Declaring that equitable "apportioning" should be done by filling-station operators so as to exact "as few hardships" as possible, he declared: "You can no more fail in [this task] than can a soldier, a sailor or a worker in a vital defense industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: At the Pump | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, ex-sailor, kept the Vanderbilt family in the love news by declaring he was about to elope with Vivian Stokes, Newport's current glamor girl. Twenty-three-year-old Jakie, briefly married two years ago, is the wandering great-great-grandson of the late Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune. Vivian, not quite 18, is scheduled to make a splashy Newport debut next week. Jakie turned up there after a three-month absence, declaring he had: joined Canada's Black Watch; ferried bombers to Britain; air-dueled with Germans. He wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Love at Newport | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...Table Spread: a moronic, statuesque Irish heiress fancies herself in love with a sailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horror Stories | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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