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First Love (Universal). Sixteen-year-old Deanna Durbin, Universal's sweetish nightingale, also happens to be its biggest box-office asset. Last week her studio faced a nerve-cracking crisis-Deanna Durbin, having unmistakably outgrown short skirts, must be shown to her public as a young lady receiving her first kiss. Could Songster Durbin hold her fans, who like to think of her as a wide-eyed child with a full-bosomed soprano, after that historic peck? For the thrilling ordeal Universal chose an ingratiating fairy tale about a singing orphan who loses her slipper, wins her prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Eight men are elected to the honor society in their Junior year, sixteen in the fall of their Senior year and approximately 50 at graduation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olum, Horn Named Marshals of P.B.K.; Sixteen Seniors Elected | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...Senior Sixteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olum, Horn Named Marshals of P.B.K.; Sixteen Seniors Elected | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

...Senior Sixteen are as follows: Charles G. Swain, whose field is Chemistry; Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Engineering Sciences; Israel H. Scheinberg, Bio-chemistry; Isadore N. Rosenberg, Bio-chemistry; Adrian J. P. LaRue, Music; Thomas V. Healey, Romance Languages; Enno R. Hobbing, History and Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Olum, Horn Named Marshals of P.B.K.; Sixteen Seniors Elected | 11/17/1939 | See Source »

Dominating the neighborhood, the Center has drawn in tenants like a sponge, emptied offices in many another building. Rented was 85% of 5,114,000 square feet of floor space, its two miles of shop frontage. Sixteen hundred companies and their subsidiaries, 25,000 people, lived their business and professional lives there. One hundred and ninety-one elevators, some of them moving at the rate of 1,400 feet a minute, sped this population up & down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: Monument | 11/13/1939 | See Source »

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