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...leaves Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins like a pair of dangling participants in a sentence of slow death. Georgia-born Miriam Hopkins achieves a lethal portrayal of a lint-brained, romantic, frantically egocentric mother. Bette Davis makes her two love affairs intelligent, sad, dignified. Vincent (The Hard Way) Sherman's direction of a careful cast turns a negligible play not so much into cinema as into good average theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 22, 1943 | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...office with a door marked in gold letters. "General of the Armies." A beribboned colonel sits inside the door. General Pershing's own room is beyond. The room is blue-carpeted; on its walls hang four portraits of America's dead and buried Generals: Washington, Grant, Sherman. Sheridan. There is a fireplace, but there is no fire in it. There is a large desk but no one sits there. The long mirror hanging over the cold fireplace reflects no living presence. The office of the General of the Armies is empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Old Soldier | 11/15/1943 | See Source »

...Deal is a poker term used by General William Tecumseh Sherman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...University of Chicago's The Human Adventure radio program is not a new idea. It was used successfully for 42 weeks on CBS in 1940. The originator was William Benton, advertising man emeritus (Benton & Bowies), now a University of Chicago vice president. Sherman Dryer, head of the University's radio department, produces it with the assistance of the faculty and Chicago radio actors. As a dramatization of the factual research going on in colleges and universities, Chicago's show has already scored heavily with students of many degrees of learning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Three Little Words | 11/8/1943 | See Source »

...attitude of many a cartel-minded British bigwig, Benton reported, was epitomized by Lord McGowan, chairman of the potent Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., and a director of General Motors, who said naively: "I see no hope for collaboration between British and American business unless the U.S. repeals its Sherman antitrust act. Can we in England look forward to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Report on Britain | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

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