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Often the listeners were asked to show pretty Miss Liberty they appreciated her by sending collect telegrams to their nearest Blue station ordering war bonds. The whimsey was profitable. By 11, when the Statue returned to her island, Blue had received orders for more than four million dollars in war bonds. When the program swung to dance music and picked up name bands, the orders kept pouring in. Blue's volunteer tabulators were nearly swamped, but at 4 a.m. could proudly announce the total: $10,359,368. Wires were still coming in, a heavy mail-order business was expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miss Liberty, Saleswoman | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...film is less an adaptation of the bathetic whimsey which Essayist Jan Struther made into a best-seller than it is a fresh screen play conceived by Producer Sidney Franklin and four writers around the original. It is played for keeps by an exceptionally good cast. There is scarcely an off-key performance in the picture. Outstanding is womanly Greer Garson's Mrs. Miniver. She had to be, and is, exactly right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Jun. 29, 1942 | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

...sculptures of the female body to teach laymen about birth control, pregnancy, female disorders. In his exhibit last week he displayed his popular "Birth Prelude" -a plaque of dimpled, della Robbia-like babies in terra cotta, showing the growth of a fetus from conception to birth. With characteristic Dickinsonian whimsey, the largest fetus holds the tiniest one in his hand. Another pair of plaques showed graphically how a child is fed in its mother's womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dr. della Robbia | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...still selling his big but ancient idea-that living can be pretty fine if people can relax and savor it. The trouble is that in his new play the Theater's most pronounced overdose of vitamin "I" leadens, rather than lightens, his fantasy with the well-known Saroyan whimsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 5, 1941 | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Billows of acrid smoke pouring from the "triangular slice of Gothic whimsey" on Mount Auburn Street, more commonly known as "the Lampoon's architectural miscarriage" nauseated passers-by and unfortunate residents of Adams House late last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sorrowing Lampoon Editors Destroy Latest Brainchild | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

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