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...order to stir up spirit and enthusiasm for House sports, the Crimson Network will sponsor a series of broadcasts of House basketball games beginning February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Network Will Broadcast House Basketball Games | 1/30/1942 | See Source »

...meet the emergency, Jim Cronin, owner of Jim's Place, is preparing a sign which he displayed in his store during the last war. The sign will read, "Take one spoonful of sugar, Stir like bell! we don't mind the noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHORTAGE OF SUGAR CREATES ALARM IN SQUARE EMPORIUMS | 1/23/1942 | See Source »

Much of Pulham's irony is blunted, if not denied, by the picture's pseudo-happy ending. Beauteous Miss Lamarr, rich, middleaged, married, still very desirable, comes to town on business and has a rendezvous with Pulham. Ancient yearnings stir under his stuffed shirt-in spite of the curt, hard-boiled way she interrupts their tryst to tell off a recalcitrant customer by telephone. An hour later his wife, who suspects him of feeling a little liverish, half-kittenishly, half-remorsefully entices him away to a weekend in the Berkshires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

That case would leave out Mexico's astonishing reaction to news that barely made a stir in the U.S. During the long negotiations Mexicans were saying cynically: "Están haciendose la barba" (They are rubbing each other's cheeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Agreement to Agree | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Last week Michigan's isolationist Senator Vandenberg spilt the news of Franklin Roosevelt's secret treaty. By threatening to stir up opposition in tax-hungry States and cities, Senator Vandenberg forced the hand of long Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From Chairman Connally: a promise that terms of the tax treaty will be made public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Spilt Tea | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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