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Word: theaters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...veteran from the Asiatic-Pacific theater, and I'm tired of war; but not too tired, now or ever, to fight for freedom for myself and all other peoples, at home or abroad. Out there I used a gun; back here I use a pen. Let's dig out our local fascists before we all have to trade our pens in on our guns again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...also a prudent man, Dean Bonilla immediately hightailed it for the safety of the Mexican Consulate. When he emerged, on the Government's guarantee of security, a member of the secret police clubbed him with a steel riding crop as he strode into Ciudad Trujillo's Rialto Theater. He would probably have been shot had not his wife thrown herself in front of him as a shield. Bonilla got back to the consulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Man of Discernment | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Orson Welles talked like a square peg. "Actually, I don't like publicity," declared the fabulous Poo-Bah of Around the World (see THEATER). "I don't like to be photographed or interviewed. I'm afraid of being misquoted. I'm just a tired sort of male Katharine Hepburn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...bustling around the hospital ward and helping nurses with the dinner trays. Dr. Shute's barber, Roy Bicknell, was in agony from coronary heart disease; three weeks after taking the vitamin, he was able to play the drums in a Little Theater orchestra, go fishing, and return to his work (see cut). Subsequent tests with more than 100 patients brought quick and often dramatic relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The E in Hearts | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...London's celebrated Old Vic Theater Company begins the final week of its U.S. tour with a 90-minute production of Ibsen's Peer Gynt, starring Ralph Richardson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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