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Dates: during 1940-1940
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What's all this talk that fills TIME and the press about President Roosevelt's great task to achieve national unity? Isn't it rather the other way around - that the losers must yield to permit that unity? Does TIME imply that unless the President now satisfies them, there will be, among Republican leaders and industrialists, open defiance to the authority of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...showings. Savo's clowning evokes a world much more fey. much less relevant to the real world than Chaplin's, and Savo's few attempts at solemnity never approach Chaplin's. But to anyone who enjoys Savo's world, a whole evening of it isn't too long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Shows in Manhattan | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...been three people to a house, there now were twelve. Rents doubled, trailer camps toad-stooled, a carpenter lives in a truck with an oil stove to keep him warm. Wrote one harassed inhabitant in the Louisville Courier-Journal: ". . . Although we were paid well for our acreage, still it isn't so easy to stand by and see the familiar old oak, the lilacs, hollyhocks and roses around the door trampled under foot to make way for the giant smokestacks that rose almost overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Ghost Towns Past & Future | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...knit together! It has bad composition! It looks like the figures are pasted to the wall! It hasn't a flowing line from beginning to end! It. ... It. ... It. ... Ah. now. take Benny Bufano's model. He gave us something. He's selling papers now, isn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Big Frieze | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...Down Beat musician's poll that Buddy rich is leading the drummers. It might seem strange to you that Krupa isn't way out in front. Well, he's not. As a matter of fact he's not even second. And the reason for this is the fact that Krupa has finally settled down to playing good drums with his band, and quit being a one-man circus. Buddy Rich, on the other hand, is playing flash, technique, and noise, all over the place. He's with Tommy Dorsey now, and he's ruining the Dorsey band just the same...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/7/1940 | See Source »

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