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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orson Welles threw up a tent and some tintype booths on a Los Angeles lot and started a brave one-man revival of prestidigitatorial entertainment, but not at tent-show prices. Service men got in free; the rest paid $11 a seat opening night, a $5.50 top thereafter. For that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 16, 1943 | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Two years ago, a Mexican ball club lured Gibson away from the Grays. The Grays threatened to drag him to court if he did not return. Cum Posey finally appealed to Sumner Welles. ". . . However," moaned the Pittsburgh Courier, "when the big fuss started, this Government launched a gigantic 'good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Josh the Basher | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

When the Japs bombed the Philippines, Laubach was visiting the U.S. after 25 years of missionary and literacy work on the Philippine island of Mindanao, in India, Africa, the Near East. He armed himself with a letter from Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, took on the 90,000,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Literatizer | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

In the columned State Department Building friends of Under Secretary Sumner Welles found him practically wreathed in smiles.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The New Understanding | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

On his 28th birthday Orson Welles unstrapped himself from a brace that keeps one of his vertebrae in line, tried to touch his toes for examining Army doctors, got as far ("Ouch!") as his knees, presently went home a 4-F.

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

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