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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dame Una Pope-Hennessey, 73, distinguished-British biographer (Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, 1934; Charles Dickens, 1945; Canon Charles Kingsley, 1949) who was made a Dame of the British Empire in 1930 by King George V for her war work; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

...Catholics and 80 Evangelical Christians came to the Sacred Banquet. The speaker of the Lutherans thanked me, his voiced drowned in tears of joy. He was a student for the ministry from Eisenach. They would all go back one day and witness that through a Catholic priest the Una Sancta Catholica et Apostolica had once in their lives become living, real truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: My Heart Stood Still | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...lavish with his color, Author Shellabarger is much the subtler hand with characters and story-though in this field "subtle" is strictly a comparative term. Prince of Foxes begins in Venice, with Andrea Orsini bowing low before the lovely Camilla degli Baglioni. Foxy Andrea can tell that Camilla is una illustrissima, but how is Camilla to know that Andrea, for all his fine clothes, is the son of a blacksmith? Prince of Foxes is laid in the same era as Somerset Maugham's trashy recent novel about Machiavelli. When it comes to the vital business of battles, eye-gougings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cloak-&-Sworders | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

Divorced. By Una Merkel, 43, honey-voiced Southern perennial of stage & screen: Ronald Burla, 40, aviation executive; after 15 years, no children; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 7, 1947 | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...Joke, Son (Eagle-Lion) brings radio's unreconstructible Senator Claghorn (Kenny Delmar) to the screen. The movie shows how he became a Senator despite his wife (Una Merkel), who also ran, and a bunch of Yankee-accented political gangsters. The Claghorn delivery rings out as nobly as the Voice of Bugle Ann. Visually the Senator is not so convincing, and his vehicle grates and clatters like loose buggy tires on a concrete pike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Feb. 17, 1947 | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

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