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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies Courageous comes in on a shattered wing and an unanswered prayer, noses over, and spills out a motley set of WAFS (see cut, p. 94) who later become WASPS. This whole covey of highly burnished cinemactresses looks more like Wam-pas cuties than like aeronauts. Judging by their actions, they cannot be trusted to pilot a perambulator, much less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Concordia Seminary, a Lutheran stronghold and one of the largest Protestant seminaries in the U.S. He teaches two courses in Old Testament at Concordia. He also edits the Walther League Messenger (circulation: over 50,000) for Lutheran young folk, signs his three monthly editorials "W.A.M." His students call him WAM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Lutherans | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

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