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From the underwear industry last week came a kittenish echo of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Memphis Incident. Announced by Blue Swan Mills (manufacturers of Minnikins, Frillikins, Smoothikins, many anotherkins) was the Panty-of-the-Month for December. It will be made of olive-drab cotton and rayon, archly embroidered (on the left hip) "Yoo-Hoo." Its inevitable name: Yoo-Hooikins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVIL FRONT: Yoo-Hooikins | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...bugle blared, the Stars & Stripes were raised, a diver swan-dived from a high platform, and a dozen white doves fluttered away to "tell the four corners of the earth" that St. Louis was host to a national swimming meet. The doves (actually squab bought from a local poultry dealer) got no farther than the four corners of the pool, but the 54th annual men's outdoor swimming championships went ahead just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Malolos | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

Groton to Havana. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in New York City on Oct. 14, 1892, the son of Benjamin and Frances Swan Welles. The senior Welles was something more than well-to-do. There is a legend (apocryphal) about the infant Sumner: that as a child at play, he wore white gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Diplomat's Diplomat | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: SYMPHONIC, ETC. | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...Store (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is supposed to be the final cinemappearance of the Brothers Marx. Henceforth they propose to apply their separate talents separately to whatever comes along. If Big Store is truly their swan song, it is a melancholy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

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