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...bedroom story measured Molotov's own suspicions. When Foreign Commissar Molotov visited Clement Attlee at the Prime Minister's quiet summer home, Chequers, the Russian brought a Russian chambermaid. In stiff disapproval the regular Chequers maid looked on while the Russian woman made Molotov's bed. The eyes of the English maid nearly popped when the pillow was lifted. There lay a long, fat pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Words & Pistols | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Harold Truscott Davis, Jr. '45, of Adams 6-31 and Hingham, Mass., was found dead in his bed yesterday morning by a maid coming to clean his room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. T. Davis Found Dead In Adams House Room | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...just so much bosh and lush thrown together haphazardly but hopefully. However, "Anchors Aweigh" depends on carefully sketched characters and novel variations to achieve its effects. Kelly plays a "sea-wolf" who saves his bashful buddy Clarence-(Sinatra) from drowning and then goes on to act as nurse-maid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 9/28/1945 | See Source »

...while away the long sea hours, Commodore Richard Valentine Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barbary Gang Buster | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...song hit of World War II, placed first in U.S. sheet-music sales and fourth in radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Those Bell Bottoms | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

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