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...WAAFs were waiting on table the doughboys showed a tendency to call them Sugar, Honey, and wisecrack with them as with waitresses of the world, which is not considered proper treatment for lady troops. Middleaged, local domestics are now doing most of the work; they have learned not to shine American buttons, which are lacquered and ruined by polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: YANKS IN ENGLAND | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Last Saturday night several Harvard students walking up Memorial Drive were suddenly chased by a group of hoodlums carrying clubs and other weapons. The students escaped into Winthrop House, but James Shine, a Yard Cop, was assaulted. According to the police records, Shine had to be "treated for bruises on back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bruise in the Night | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

...school class at Portland, Ore., he is now the Red Sox's No. 1 public speaker, having delivered some 40 speeches at banquets, luncheons, club meetings. But little Pesky is still awed by his big-league teammates, especially Bobby Doerr and Lou Finney, whose shoes he used to shine when he was a "clubhouse punk" for the Portland Beavers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Refreshments | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...makes Moonlight shine is young, handsome Jerry Lawrence, former actor and amateur wrestler at San Diego State College. He rounds up live talent for the program, and in recent months has introduced Peter Arno, Sheila Barrett, Tommy Dorsey and Guy Lombardo on his "Celebrities Corner" feature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Moonlight Savings | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

...Virginia Lucie fell in love. "I know how to milk a cow and to plow the fields and I love every bit of it," Virginia Lucie said. His Lordship was pleased. He, too, had the country heart and he dreamed of how Virginia Lucie's dark hair would shine in the candlelight at the dinner hour and how her slim legs would twinkle across the great oak floors and her laughter would drive away the shadows in the stormy nights of winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Lover and His Lass | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

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