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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Signal Corps Sergeant Robert Hopkins, 23, thin-faced photographer son of Presidential Adviser Harry Hopkins (by his first marriage); and Brenda Stephenson, 18, daughter of a Lancashire engineer; in Perryvale, Middlesex, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

With the deterioration of Japanese air and naval power, the CVEs-Casablancas, Bogues and Sangamons-began to assume a new role. In spite of their slowness, thin skin, light armament, they were thrown into front-line jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Navy's Babies | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

...bound for a plywood mill. Logs are rotated against a huge blade which peels them into long, thin sheets of wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: Black Bonanza | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Trapshooting tradition was upheld last week at Vandalia, Ohio. In 45 years there have been no repeat winners of the national amateur championship, no women victors. The Grand American Handicap* was captured by Leslie Jepsen, a sparse-haired, thin, nervous electrician from Dwight, Ill. He toed the mark at 19 yards with a pump gun borrowed from a neighbor at home (he broke his own two years ago) and hit 97 clay birds out of 100. His prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: At Vandalia | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

Franklin Roosevelt was coatless; his thinning grey hair was neatly combed. Though his face still had the thin and careworn look it has worn for months, he was lightly tanned, and looked rested and fit. This answered Question No. 1: how does he look? And immediately they got an answer to Question No. 2: how does he feel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President's Week, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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