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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What, the court wanted to know, was Chaplin doing all this time? Miss Berry shyly fingered her smooth calves: "He was playing with my legs-here. He said: 'You know where to get the pajamas.' I did and I got them. He made a little love to me . . ." And then they went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Just a Peter Pan | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

...when the Chief of Staff sent him first to Britain, then to Africa in 1942. In addition to his natural ability to get along with people, Eisenhower acquired the knack of hitting it off with other nationals, notably the British. In Africa his command structure was a complex but smooth-working mesh of U.S. and British officers, and he carried the same formula back to England when he was chosen to head the invasion. Of the six men on his Supreme Command, four were British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Fate of the World | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Chungking believed that the Japanese at Hochih were still overextended; that although they might hold there indefinitely, it would be some time before they could resume the drive into Free China. Chungking's new War Minister, lean, smooth General Chen Cheng, and American officers, with whom he was on better terms than his predecessor, strove to wring every possible advantage from the frosty breathing spell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Cold Comfort | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Working as smoothly as their smooth, new planes, the Forty-niners played an important part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. They flew over the Owen Stanley mountains, strafed and dive-bombed on missions of their own, escorted heavy bombers, gave valuable support to ground troops all up the New Guinea coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: First and Foremost | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Dear Ruth has the straight Broadway virtues: smooth casting and direction (by Moss Hart), a lively charting of every navigable foot of plot, and a family album full of action shots and funny poses. Basically the characters are all tintypes, and the play uses anything that will get a laugh, lend a twist or bring down a curtain. Some of them bring down the house as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 25, 1944 | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

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