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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long conference with Krug delayed the President's departure aboard the yacht Williamsburg for a weekend visit to the Naval Academy. When he reached Annapolis after an all-night cruise, he looked chipper and relaxed. Next day he made an informal little speech before lunch in Bancroft Hall. There was a subdued laugh from the future admirals when the President said: "The future is in your hands. . . . Those of us now running the Government are coming to the end of their term." Then, as a raw wind swept off the river, Army veteran Harry Truman watched the Navy lose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRESIDENCY: Before the Storm | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

Opening in December, 1902, when the Supreme Court Justice arrived in Washington to assume his duties on the bench during the Big Stick rule of the first Roosevelt, it concludes with the precedent-breaking visit of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt to the ninety-two year old, retired jurist. During these years, the play winds through only an occasional and superficial treatment of the century's important political issues. Over all, the ever-present guiding hand of Fanny is seen to be the driving force in the formation of Holmes' ideas and opinions. In the emphasis of the degree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1946 | See Source »

Ellington first heard Django in 1939 in La Roulotte, Django's cabaret in Paris' Rue Pigalle. Last month the Duke paid Django's airplane passage to the U.S. for a six-month visit (Django's 250-lb. gypsy wife stayed behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Django Music | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Last week, after two months in the U.S., Dr. Brunner flew back to Europe and his Systematic Theology classes at the University of Zurich. He had found the U.S. much changed for the better, theologically speaking, since his last visit in 1938-39. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Theological Awakening? | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright man of Mr. Garfield. After his redemption, a few of his still dishonest associates have to be disposed of in some last-reel gunplay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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