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...much until the school's treasurer, George White (white), formed a chorus, named it the Jubilee Singers, took them on a barnstorming tour of the North. Mr. White sent back $40,000 to buy a campus. The Singers went abroad, sang before Queen Victoria, who requested Steal Away to Jesus. That tour netted $200,000, which bought Jubilee Hall, other Fisk buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Year of Jubilee | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

When adult Hollywood stars encounter Hollywood infants, the cinemoppets generally steal the show. Stars Grant and Dunne successfully weather the serious competition of two pairs of identical twins (who play the Adams' child at different ages, one of each subbing for the other to save shooting time). The awkward, embarrassed ineptitude of their first night of parenthood is one of the most deliciously human, truly comic sequences out of Hollywood in many moons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...winning tally came in for the visitors when Barsscs on first with a single tried a steal. Harvard's backstop, Bob Regan, throw to Keyes at second but on the toss Beinstein reached home from third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINNING RUNS TRICKLE IN ON ERRORS AS NINE DIVIDES PAIR | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

...take them into camp. They [Johnny Bulls] moan at the Germans for taking land and yet they stole half of the world. Oh, that was splendid! The Germans at least proved they were men enough to take something. They don't sneak around with their sly tongues and steal something by the use of big mouths. Them and their big mouths and umbrellas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Amapola (Jimmy Dorsey; Decca). Every company has disced a steal of this Latin classic, of which Dorsey's seems most earful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Popular, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

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