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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Superbly filmed (in Technicolor) by Vienna-born Director Fritz Lang, Western Union has the same swift pace and scenic beauty that distinguished John Ford's Stagecoach two years ago. The players are uniformly ingratiating-including Robert Young as a brash young tenderfoot from Harvard who finally avenges Vance's death. But acting honors go to lean, tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Randy Scott, who in Western Union plays his 18th Zane Grey character, looks more than ever like a 1941 Bill Hart. Virginia-born, educated at swank Woodberry Forest School and the University of North Carolina, Actor Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

William B. Coolidge, of Medford, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Govern ment and Tutor; and Frederic W. Swift, '32 of West Newton, Mass., as Teaching Fellow in Psychology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Appointments Enlarge Medical School Staff | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

...Italians could not run fast enough last week. The fall of Bengasi was brought about by swift execution of the familiar tactic of the giant pincer. While the main Australian force chased Italians along the coast, a mechanized force branched across the hump of Cyrenaica to form the pincer's nether jaw. This body, meeting little resistance other than a sandstorm which choked carburetors as well as throats, headed for a spot about 50 miles south of Bengasi-just below Soluch, the southern terminus of a short railway spur which runs down the coast from Bengasi. The British force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fall of Bengasi | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...year, out from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...stops the show with the wrigglings of her round rump and wiry body, the tossings of her disheveled gypsy hair, the animal fury of her tough, splash-mouthed face. In the improvised measures of flamenco dances like the Soleares and Alegrias, never twice alike, Amaya's incredibly swift foot-stamps, finger-snappings and castanet-clacks are something to see and hear. "When I dance," says she, "my heart comes out of my mouth." Watchers can almost see it happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flamenco Dancer | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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