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...predecessor if you lived the way braye Doctor Kilders and lovable old Doctor Gillespie caused various and sundry uproars at the old hospital, just watch the old boy pick out a new assistant from as motley a batch of embryo docs as one could assemble in this war-torn world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTERTAINMENT | 6/11/1943 | See Source »

Back in Manhattan for another visit were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, who came to town with a manservant, a maid and a secretary. The Governor of the Bahamas said that it was both a personal and a business visit, that the matter of the Bahamas' war-torn economic situation would be taken up in Washington. "I want to see what's in the stores," said the Duchess. Said the yellow-carnation-boutonniered Duke: "I'm afraid there won't be much shopping. We haven't many dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...film makes a good technical try for pace, but never really achieves it Russell's and MacMurray's thanks-for-the-memory love junket is as bland as anything the Hays office has swallowed in recent months. But mainly the picture is as uneven as a war-torn corduroy road. Once, its taste graph dips so low as to show a group of flyers in a back room saluting Rosalind Russell with song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

Belt of Kindness. Behind Tiny Montgomery and Susan Tate stands an organization that has put a belt of mercy around the world. In the last three years the Red Cross has distributed $63,000,000 worth of supplies in war-torn countries. To Great Britain have gone: hospital equipment, medical and surgical supplies, clothing for civilians bombed out of their homes; to Russia: bandages, anti-gangrene serum, insulin; to China: quinine, vitamin tablets, cracked wheat; to France: clothing, flour, chocolate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Badge of Courage | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...War-torn pages from the diary of the famed Chicago-born Paris dress designer Mainbocher, whose salon is now located on Manhattan's 57th Street, were published last week in the New York Herald Tribune. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dressmaker's Diary | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

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