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...LeCorbeiller has arranged a special band-pass filter for his cello and is planning to produce sounds never before heard by the human ear. Manager and Cornetist Schwetman has announced that Dr. Tatum is in his best saxophone trim minority plebiscite...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

...Trim, dark-eyed Anne Josephine Shofner gave a party last week in Portland. Ore. She fed baked beans to the city's politicos, Navy brass hats and scores of grimy workers. On her guest of honor, decked out in roses, glutted with pigiron, she splattered champagne. After the party, the guest-a $70,000 Lectromelt furnace-went hotly to work turning out steel for Mrs. Shofner's steel casting plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman's Place | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

General Lee was on hand for the windup, satisfied with the show. His verdict: There are still some loose ends to pick up during these maneuvers. After that the outfit ought to be in fighting trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Envelopment from the Sky | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...Hannah Williams Dempsey came out for the third and last round of her divorce trial fagged but trim. After chief co-respondent Benny Woodall disclaimed any & all connection with the Dempseys' "martial troubles," the onetime show girl took the stand to tell how the Manassa Mauler once sent her guests home in an ambulance, once suggested an illegal operation to her, once tossed her into a closet, once waved a gun at her (she said she told him to "Take one good shot and end my misery"). When a candid photo of her with Benny and his sister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...request, Stuffy retired last July to the quiet of his widower's home in Wimbledon to follow the war through the newspapers. At 61 he is still a trim, erect figure, more than ever engrossed in the spiritualist studies which have long interested him. In London's Sunday Pictorial Sir Hugh was quoted last week: "I am sure that our war dead live on. ... I have read messages from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Peerage for Stuffy | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

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