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...Leaving a cemetery where he had just buried a friend, Barrymore was seated in a car with a crotchety old stranger who objected when John took a nip from a flask. "If you have no respect for the surroundings," chided the oldster, "you might have some for me-I am 97 years old." Jack gazed out at the graveyard, murmured: "There doesn't seem to be much point in your leaving the place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Great Profilactor | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

...Emily is terrifying. In the play (because she has to be toned down) she is merely terrified. Similarly all the other children gain in cuteness, lose in acuity, turn physical handsprings instead of moral somersaults. Hence the strange, remote world of the pirate ship does not blend with the stranger, even more remote world of childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...Welcome, Stranger. In Boston, William Allen arrived cautiously from the country with $600 cleverly distributed over his person in six different wallets. He met a stranger who admired his build, felt his muscles, patted him, took his leave, got away with all six wallets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

Whose charming I'm a Stranger Here Myself does rate a solid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...stormy night in Cleveland last winter a motorist picked up a stranger, was amazed to hear the rider babble of mysterious doings in the war plant where he worked. The motorist told the FBI, which quietly began investigating one of the country's biggest makers of aluminum castings for war planes, tanks and ships-the National Bronze and Aluminum Foundry Co. The FBI's findings caused a grand jury to issue the first indictments against U.S. businessmen tinder the World War I Sabotage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Most Despicable . . . | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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