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...moods from the comic to the truculent, but always with a full head of steam. He grew up on the Havana docks, became a prize fighter, started as a singer when the Havana Riverside Casino fished him out of tough waterfront cafes. Last week Valdes finished off an eight-week run at La Conga, where he made such a hit that one of the nightly duties of the headwaiter was to wipe off the lipstick feverish women had implanted on his photograph in the lobby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Leading Latins | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...Last week one film, Random Harvest, broke all records for a single house: in an eleven-week run (one week longer than Mrs. Miniver) at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, it had played to more than 1,550,000 people. Another Manhattan record: Star Spangled Rhythm finished an eight-week run, longest in the huge Paramount Theater's history. Yankee Doodle Dandy ran 27 weeks on Broadway; Casablanca was in its 15th...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boom | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

...meet the pinch as best they can, as rapidly as possible they teach women the printing trade (Kansas State Teachers College, in cooperation with Kansas publishers, is organizing an eight-week course); they raid high schools and colleges. In many instances, two or more papers have consolidated their mechanical departments. More syndicated features are used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Weeklies & The War | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

Sixty women specialists will be enrolled in the Yale School of engineering this January for an intensive eight-week aeronautical training course it was announced in New Haven Monday. They will be employees of the Vought-Sikorsky Aircraft Division of the United Aircraft Corporation, and will work in the Vought-Sikorsky plants upon the completion of their course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE WILL TRAIN WOMEN ENGINEERS | 12/10/1942 | See Source »

...organization which may include 150,000 women, "Major" Hobby is still unfazed, has started methodically on basic organization. Plans so far: 1) The first contingent of about 400 officer-candidates, 30 or 40 from each corps area, will go to Fort Des Moines, Iowa, on July 15 for an eight-week course; 2) when the officer nucleus is ready, the Corps will begin to take in its first 25,000 "enlisted" women, called auxiliaries (privates) or specialists (who rate higher pay); 3) three-fifths of the Corps will serve with the Aircraft Warning Service, which the Army wants taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy And Civilian Defense: Major Hobby's WAACs | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

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