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...hillbilly ballad The Martins and the Coys is a burlesque of backwoods feuding which will delight lovers of radio rurality and of Paul Webb's mountaineer cartoons, and offend those who think such caricature as insulting as the hush-mah-mouf kind of comic contempt for Negroes. All the Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Everett Webb Kennedy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Counts Its Dead of the Second World War | 4/9/1946 | See Source »

Divorced. Jacob L. ("Jakie") Webb, 27, errant great-great-grandson of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; by Lenore Lemmon, 22, Manhattan cafe character; after ten days of marriage, 4½ years of separation, no children; in West Palm Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

Snow & Flannels. The Brooks legend is based not only on its unflinching conservatism but on the longevity, resourcefulness and imperturbability of its clerks. Classic prototype of the store's salesmen was Frederick Webb, who, when he died in 1928 at the age of 84, had put in 65 years of service, during which he outfitted five generations of Morgans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sartor Resartus | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

...Webb was busy counting a pile of coats when J. P. Morgan, the younger, walked in. Said Morgan: "Good morning, Mr. Webb." Said Mr. Webb, looking up: "Oh, good morning, Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sartor Resartus | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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