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In London last week a troubled little orphan, the daughter of one of Britain's war heroines, whiled away the lonely hours wondering why her mother did not come back. In Ravensbruck, a group of hangdog Nazis were awaiting trial for her mother's murder.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Which We Serve | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Now in its twenty-first year of operation, the University Theatre has become as much a part of the Harvard scene as the statue of Old Jawn himself in the Yard. Ever since the first and only movie house in Harvard Square opened its doors on October 29, 1926, many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

In 1938 she lit out for Spain to fight the fascists, but never got there. By the time she reached Paris her anemia was so serious that she had to go to bed. She whiled away a long convalescence by taking up art. Soon she became infatuated with the 1900s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris in the Spring | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

The full details of how two little boys whiled away nine and a half hours while their mother lay unconscious on the living-room floor remained almost as obscure as the criminal's motive. When Peter opened the door to the police, he said about all he had to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Connecticut Morning | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Feeling a good deal like Siberian exiles, the museum men whiled away the long, blitzless days by whamming golf balls across the manicured terraces or romping with a police dog named Peggy. Drinking was strictly forbidden.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

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