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...sweater girl, Rosemary Lane is just what the Hays office didn't order. With complaisant charm she allows herself to be unfrocked by adolescent souvenir hunters, submits to the unlikely proposition that she is old enough to be slipping. Her best number: That's How I Like the Blues, which she tosses around in the fine style it deserves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicomedy in Manhattan, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Network will explain the operation of the broadcasting apparatus and conduct typical broadcasts at intervals throughout the day. A group of hostesses, under Miss Mary Whittier of Dover, will also be on hand to show the studios and welcome the guests. Visitors will be afforded an opportunity to make souvenir recordings of their voices at a nominal charge for discs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Open House Offers Hostesses and Guided Tours | 6/4/1941 | See Source »

Last week the remnants of Arthur Neville Chamberlain's worldly possessions went on the auction block at his home in Birmingham. Already distributed to relatives and friends were his umbrella, his fishing tackle, butterfly collections, other valuables. With little enthusiasm, women souvenir hunters and secondhand dealers bid for the rest, a motley collection of old juvenile books, pottery, bedraggled furniture. High bid of ?55 was for a piano. A settee from the Chamberlain drawing room went for ?7; an oak bureau with graduated drawers, for "accommodating birds' eggs," for 15 shillings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Appeaser's Auction | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

...Resettlement Administration, he got sick of Administrator Rexford Tugwell's bright young men who loved to sit around the conference table waggling their Phi Beta Kappa keys. One day the colonel marched into conference, casually threw back his coat and exposed, on a heavy brass chain, a souvenir hotel key large enough to choke a horse. Last week the colonel scored another point, just as quietly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: In Good Faith | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...official statement to the press late last night a half dozen Harvard Sophomores announced that they had paid a surprise visit to the Deke House at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and reported proudly that they had left a souvenir in the form of a 20-inch "H" on the oak front door...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATE DISPATCH: BLITZKRIEG REPORTED IN CANTABRIDGIA | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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