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...stupefyingly dull. Playwright Chase has hand-tailored for Actress Chase the role of Devon Elliott, a manufacturer of haunting perfumes. Devon's career is notable, her lure considerable, but her life somehow becomes a champagne bucket of ashes. Her husband loves her, yet leaves her; her refugee swain loves her, yet has a girl in every flat. Seeking to blend Park Avenue with poignancy, brittle talk with amorous bruises, In Bed We Cry is much less a slice of life than a setup for an actress who wants to do everything from scintillate to suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 27, 1944 | 11/27/1944 | See Source »

Item 3--The changing of the guard is a thing watched with some interest. It's our candid and we hope not inopportune prediction that we'll see Louie Swain as Battalion Commander, Charlie Hebden as sub commander, Bill Harrington as Company 1 commander, and Dave Schneider as Company 2 commander. However, don't blame us if Lieutenant Toune has a different taste in cadence counting...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/26/1944 | See Source »

...Tigers, after being held to one win in their first two games, broke loose with eight tallies in the initial game Friday to hammer Ernie Mataset from the hill. From there they beat Lou Swain's Dodgers...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/22/1944 | See Source »

Saying, that it was just too hot to go anywhere George Trudean and Lot Swain stayed close around Boston with the American Legion taking the supply of tonic in the glass, in the battle...

Author: By Jack Schindier, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

...Atlantic City, 3,500 delegates of the Northern Baptist Convention (1,460,000 communicants) elected Mrs. Leslie E. Swain of Providence the second woman president in the Convention's 130-year history.* The Convention reaffirmed the Northern Baptist anti-war stand, but decided to give its blessing to individual Baptists taking part in the war. Said the Convention's war resolution (drawn up by Dr. Daniel A. Poling): "The church must be the church-not a recruiting agency for any government. [But] she must companion her sons and daughters wherever as conscientious Christians they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Conventions | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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