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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father-in-Law Coburn is of the opinion that there are better things for a handsome widow to do than fill her dead husband's political and social boots; when his prim housekeeper asks what, he replies, "I'm afraid you wouldn't remember." Mayoress Dunne begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

For arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The 65-Year-Olds | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

Back in the Fourth District after her tour Mrs. Luce found a curious reversal of the normal political situation in the county. The normally Republican sections -the so-called "station-wagon" vote in commuting areas-did not do as well by her as they might, whereas the factory girls of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Through the Mill | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Nor was the farm prophet impressed by the prospects for increased domestic demand. Even granting a 20% gain in income in ten years after the war, and a 5% population increase, he held that the demand for farm products would gain only 9%, whereas production will increase 15% during the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Prophecy | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

The Current Crop. All but drowned in the postwar hubbub was the West Coast's brand-new American Football League, which was finding college box-office competition a hard nut to crack. Last week, a 4,000 handful turned out to see the Los Angeles Mustangs meet the Los...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pro Prospects | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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