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...Club blowout a week from next Monday. He's on a month's leave, Preparatory to re-entering as a Midship- man with the new class on June J. That's a tough reason for a vacation, as were the deals Fate handed out to Ken Seitz and George Webb...

Author: By M. J. Reth, | Title: MIDSHIPMEN | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

Died. Beatrice Potter Webb, 85, researcher, author, collaborator and wife of Socialist Sidney Webb (first Baron Passfield) ; in Liphook, Hants, England. Eighth of the nine daughters of Great Western Railway's onetime chairman, she began work as a reformer at 22, married the Fabian Society's Sidney Webb in 1892. When a Labor Government made him Secretary of State for Dominions and Colonies, elevated him to the peerage in 1929, she refused to assume his title. Famed for their 1909 "Minority Report" on British poor laws and for their subsequent crusade (backed by Winston Churchill) to prevent public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

...charge of the latter demonstration were the new and retiring Officers of the Day, endots Thomas C. Palmer and Charles L. Tillery, and guard-commanders Andrew Fisher and Allen T. Webb Also in executive capacity was S. L. Kapaid, Sergeant of the Guard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Governor Saltonstall Spectator At Review of University ROTC | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

Ella Fitzgerald is also promised. While her singing of late is-not on the same level as in the old Chick Webb days, Ella is still, for my money, worth a baker's dozen of Dinah Shores and Helen O'Connells...

Author: By Eugene Benyas, | Title: SWING | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Targets for Tonight. In San Francisco, police who arrested Lewis L. Webb after he had shot his hotel room full of holes got an explanation from his 60-year-old wife: somebody had insulted her, and "Lewis was just showing me what he'd do." In The Bronx, Thomas Cunningham, charged with shooting steadily through a neighbor's window at a can of corned beef, explained that the neighbor had been eying his daughter. In Chicago, Gilbert Hayashi explained to police why he had been shooting at his roommate with a bow and arrow: "I am interested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 8, 1943 | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

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