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...often, moreover, the war news is shunted off the front page in favor of flashier items. The hero (Gregory Peck), a brilliant young doctor thwarted by his superiors, abandons his work to toss off a best-selling novel, and his wife to take up vith a high-stepping trollop (Wendy Barrie). But medicine and matrimony eventually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Author Paul discovered his beloved street one soft summer night in 1923, when it was still possible "to do things without premeditation." After dropping into "the most perfect small Gothic church in France, St. Severin," he picked up a trollop named Suzanne. She steered him into the rue de la Huchette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Gamins & Spinach | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...marries one Melvyn Douglas, publisher of a Manhattan magazine called Tides and Currents. Half poet, half Napoleon, he leaves her in the snow to rush East on pressing publication matters. When he fails to return, Garbo goes after him, inadvertently poses as her own imaginary sister (a fascinating international trollop) and seduces her husband with ease. Everything ends slaphappily back in snowbound Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

Johnson writes: "In the whole Roosevelt record there is not a single great musician, painter, sculptor, or other artist, and not a single madman. No Roosevelt ever died as a martyr to some great cause, and none was ever shot in a quarrel over a trollop. Up to the eighth generation there is no conspicuous instance in which a Roosevelt ever refused to do his duty, and none in which one ever did much more than his duty. For 250 years the family record was remarkably clear of both scandal and glory." Suddenly out of the line appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dictator or Democrat? | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). A girl dies at an English house party that includes a trollop, a squire, an American wife, a rolling stone, a fribble, a quack. Detective Nigel Strangeways is baffled right up to the tantalizing conclusion. Grim and pathological, but a grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in October, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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