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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Actress Ruth Gordon, 46, just before the Washington opening of Tchekov's Three Sisters, in which she played the sister-in-law; and Private Garson Kanin, 30, ex-boy-wonder cinedirector; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 7, 1942 | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

...These admissions . . . make me wonder ... if the only solution for the city is a thoroughgoing reorganization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Bankruptcy's Brink | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Knee-high, banjo-eyed, potato-nosed Barney Google and his wonder nag, Spark Plug, were to U.S. kids in the '20s what Superman is today. Barney Google ("and his goo-goo-googly eyes") was a 1923 song hit that sold more than a million copies. Three Barney Google musicomedies toured the U.S. for two years; a toy manufacturer sold $1,000,000 worth of Google and Spark Plug toys and dolls; many a Google catchphrase entered the slanguage ("Horsefeathers!" "Heebie-jeebies"; "Jeepers Creepers!" "Youse Is A Viper"; "Bus' Mah Britches!" "Time's a'wastin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: De Beck Dies | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

When Death, the prompter, as it must to all actors, called exit last week George M. Cohan did not have to wonder what his notices would be like: his career had been vividly reported to millions while he lived. Five months before death (of cancer) Cohan had seen a runoff of his own cinemapotheosis, Yankee Doodle Dandy (TIME, June 22), with James Cagney outdoodling the actor he portrayed. The picture turned the jauntiness and the flag-waving, the Cohan tunes and the Cohan tricks, into a nostalgic tintype of an era. No one typified that era more than Cohan himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Great Showman | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...peasant showed Edouard a sawed-off shotgun buried in the Galle barn, and Edouard soon began to wonder whether one of the family had not committed the murder. It could not be Andre; it could not be Daughter Franchise. But what about Son Blaise who insulted Edouard at every turn? Or his Communist buddy Maurice, who worked in the Galle house and had once murdered an enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: After Escape | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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