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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life story of Edna St. Vincent Millay," reported Gossip Columnist Danton Walker, "may be a new biographical film." A few days before, Walker had reported: "Alice B. Toklas . . . [is] returning here from Paris to buy a home in Oakland, Calif." But Columnist Walker (one of two newspapermen to make the Man of Distinction whiskey ads) was having a spell of undistinction.* In Austerlitz, N.Y., Pulitzer Prize Poetess Millay averred that she had never heard of such a thing. In Paris, the famed bosom friend of the late Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas) announced: "I have no intention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Duffy v. Dreadnought. Newark, which recently agreed to lease its port facilities to the Port of New York Authority (TIME, Nov. 3) for an $11,000,000 development program, thought the New Mex would block the program by tying up pier space. So Newark's Mayor Vincent Joseph Murphy, egged on by the local press, ordered out the city's two fire boats, Michael P. Duffy and William J. Brennan, to block the port's narrow entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCRAP: The Cold War | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...faith in humanity, which many people may find hard to take, is personified agreeably in Barbara Bel Geddes, who is convincingly charming and pure in her film debut. The thorn in the side of Fonda and Bel Geddes's true love, velvet-smooth Vincent Price, complicates the plot by trying to seduce the girl and torture Fonda with an induced inferiority complex. For you see, he is but a working man, who little understands the complicated nature of woman. It takes a while, but Fonda finally realizes that the ladies are as simple as he had thought, and that everyone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Holyoke Street pre-Princeton festivities, which include a pop talk by injured Varsity captain Vincent P. Moravee '50, will be preceded by the traditional torchlight parade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Will Rally Tonight By Torchlight | 11/7/1947 | See Source »

...effete culture of Boston ("In the room the women come and go, Talking of Michelangelo"-); Rupert Brooke's War Sonnets; Joyce Kilmer's Trees; Vachel Lindsay's General William Booth Enters Into Heaven, She gave the first critical recognition to Wallace Stevens, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Karl Shapiro. In Poetry D. H. Lawrence, Ford Madox Ford and Rabindranath Tagore got their first U.S. hearings. # Copyright by permission of Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice in the Land | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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