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The actress does not belie the woman. Ruth Gordon has a sharp tongue in her head, no coy sweetness, no fake modesty. Told she stands on the theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Three-Star Classic | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Late Returns. Hollywood almost kept Actresses Gordon and Anderson out of The Three Sisters. To begin with, Director McClintic put off starting rehearsals for weeks because the two stars were finishing a movie, The Edge of Darkness. Errol Flynn was in the movie, and also in a mess. Had Hollywood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Three-Star Classic | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

To cope with this situation, however, the University's break down squad, hospital squad, and fire department rushed on the scene and had everything under control without a moment's delay, and proved their efficiency in spite of the darkness.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Blackout Here Successful As Navy Rises to Incident | 12/16/1942 | See Source »

Engineer Sosnovkin decided to build his bridge in sections, 18 inches below the river's surface. For many nights his men practiced underwater construction on their side of the river, in a spot out of sight of the Germans. They set log pillars firmly in stone foundations. They clamped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Stalin's Liubimefs | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

Late Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Ideas | 12/14/1942 | See Source »

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