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Which merits a nice passing grade-nothing remotely resembling A plus, but at any rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Last week in Cairo, King Peter and the rest of his Cabinet in Exile waited patiently. Over the radio the 20-year-old claimant to an overturned throne in Bel grade addressed his subjects, urged them to "obey Mihailovich and other national leaders of your resistance to the enemy and refrain from internal struggle." It was a long step for Peter to mention other leaders; he still could not bring himself to call the Partisans by name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Red Star and Clenched Fist | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

Scotsmen Don't Kick. Religion, politics and arson (dangerous subject) are taboo for the program's joke-making, but everything else, within the bounds of reasonable taste, goes. Hershfield, who is also a columnist (New York Daily Mirror) and cartoonist (Desperate Desmond), and Donald are grade-A dialect storytellers. This talent usually arouses protests from the nationality they have outraged. But Scotsmen never protest. During 1943 the favorite type of joke sent in by contestants has been that known as "moron." Sample: "Have you any children?" "Un happily, no." "That's too bad. I wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Have You Heard This One? | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

Born in Dover, Ohio, Papsdorf has al ways lived in Ohio or Michigan. His German-born ex-missionary father sent him to grade schools, kept a sharp eye on his son's pastimes. Fred Papsdorf made his own beginner's colors out of stray tinted chalk mixed with linseed oil, later ordered10? tubes of mail-order paint (pictures made with these paints, he says, have held correct color values through the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Cozy Corner | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...group logged in on October 1 and has been starting classes this week. Among the student officers are two Lieutenants (junior grade) the first women above the rank of ensign to study supply here. They will be under Captain Kenneth C. McKintosh, head of the NTS (Supply Corps) as Officer in Charge, with Lieutenant (j. g.) Marie A. Gaertner as their senior duty officer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAVES GET 138 IN NEW CLASS | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

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