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Jere Knight, widow of Major Eric Knight (This Above All), was made a 2nd lieutenant in the WACs at Fort Des Moines...
...Conrad Veidt Above Suspicion is also a milestone: his last picture for anybody. He died last spring (TIME, April 12), age 50, of a heart attack, on a Hollywood golf course. Often regarded as Eric von Stroheim's most formidable rival as a fondler of monocles, German-born Veidt first came to fame in Robert Wiene's bizarre fantasy, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Other weirdies, like The Hands of Mr. Orlac, followed. Women fainted, men screamed, children chortled when they were shown. By 1926, when Veidt went to Hollywood, audiences had got hold of themselves pretty well...
...time to radio the nearest Allied base, an American outpost 100 miles away, then crew and passengers bailed out. All but two of the 21 landed safely. Among them: William L. Stanton, of the U.S. Office of Economic Warfare; John Davies, second secretary of the American Embassy at Chungking; Eric Sevareid, CBS news commentator; several Chinese colonels...
...This is Eric Hodgins, TIME'S Editorial Vice President, who was first Managing Editor, then Publisher of FORTUNE, before that was Managing Editor of the Youth's Companion, Associate Editor of Redbook. A graduate engineer, Hodgins is co-author of several widely-read scientific books. The New Yorker calls him "thin-haired, orbicular...
...Thomas Eric Baker (Government), Richard Milton Bloch (Mathematics), Jerome Ira Brawer (Area of Social Science), Edward Herrick Cook, John Daniel Cotman, Jr. (Chemistry), Joseph Bailey Dillon (Economics), Donald Forte (Sociology), William Arthur Glynn (Romance Languages and Literatures), Harry Samuel Hall (Government), Bradford Davis Haseltine (History), Myron Stuart Kaufmann, Richard Henri MacNeal (Engineering Sciences), Vyv Byron Mather, (Economics), Edward Julian Modest (Chemistry...