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...dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache to match) and a martini-cold eye. But the yegg is just a softie under his shell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hackensack's Shame | 8/11/1947 | See Source »

...release, he was forcibly inducted into the Army, forcibly dressed in uniform; a tall Welsh Guardsman, who was to escort him back to Wales, ordered him to shoulder his pack. Homer refused. The deadlock continued till a crowd gathered. Finally a grey-haired little man stepped forward, quietly picked up the pack and murmured: "Come along, Arthur." It was Arthur Horner's father. Arthur's finish to the story: "Of course, as we got round the corner, I took the pack from the old man-but I was damned if I was going to cave in under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Old Jim Horner's Boy | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Wine may still stop its flow at Wellesley's verdant borders, but not so women or even song of the hotel orchestra variety. The 500 wooded acres on Lake Waban are currently the home of the only college-sponsored theatre in America, marking opening night tonight replete with aircraft escort...

Author: By The CRIMSON Wellesley bureau, | Title: Opening of Wellesley Summer Stage Lures Pilot and Pundit Attendance | 7/15/1947 | See Source »

...must go to an office under the bookstacks," he said. "There they are qualified to issue a temporary pass. You would never find it. It is far too complicated. I will summon an escort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Write with the Heart | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

France--775 bombers, 300 fighters, 200 reconnaissance planes--total 1275 planes; 16 divisions (3 armored, 3 airborne, 10 motorized or mountain); 3 battleships, 6 carriers, 9 cruisers, 18 to 24 destroyers, 30 escort vessels, 30 minesweepers, 12 submarines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Passes Legislation Enabling Hawaii To Form Constitution, Become the 49th State | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

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