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Last week the Army announced that G.I. theaters could not exhibit Darryl F. Zanuck's $5,000,000 Technicolorful Wilson. Also prohibited was a Fibber McGee movie called Heavenly Days, in which the irreverent Fibber, the wag of Wistful Vista, is selected Mr. Average Man in a Gallup Poll, goes to Washington, and is tossed out of the Senate when he tries to make a speech (see cut). Then the Army reversed its field and said it had not made up its mind yet. But it was firm on the rest of its bans. Army post exchanges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Title V Nonsense | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Awed and thankful, Tweed gazed at the sight, wondered where the Navy had got so many ships and rushed down to the beach under the bombardment to flash his glass and wag his flags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Rescue of Tweed | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...York Drama Critics' Circle could find any U.S. play of the season worthy of a prize; but business was brisk enough to create acute theater shortages for weeks on end.* For a time theatrical junk collecting was so much the rage that, according to Columnist Walter Winchell, a wag hoped his new show would be able "to overcome the good notices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Late Unlamented | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Major Mary Bell, 50, spinster. A longtime schoolteacher (French, Latin, history, mathematics), she was dean of women at Coe College in Iowa when she joined the WAG (then WAAC) in 1942. She was graduated with the first class of women officer-candidates, one of the oldest of her group, rose rapidly. Her associates say that she is motherly, sympathetic, popular, call her "Mummie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Mummie | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends of ostriches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bender | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

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