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...Marianas, U.S. correspondents thought they might have found one small part of the explanation for wholesale enemy suicides in the face of defeat: the Japs seemed willing to swallow any yarn their Government told them, believed they would be tortured and killed if captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shut-Ins | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn about two sweet old ladies who flavor their wine with a wee drop of poison (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...teachers, unable to make both ends meet, have gone into business on the side. One professor helps his wife run a restaurant; another sells typewriter ribbons and razor blades. The more adventurous speculate in cotton yarn, dyes and other articles of value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Pleasure Remains | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn of two old ladies' poisonings that are most playgoers' meat (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

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