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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Alice Faye and Betty Grable are a tough-to-beat combination, especially when they have a half-dozen good tunes to plug. Of course the pleasant renditions of the leading ladies make them as good as new. Jack Oakie helps the show along with some skillful bits of light comedy and Esther Ralston, who was a star about half the length of time ago that the songs were hits, makes a short but sensational appearance. The plot is much older than the songs, but it is unimportant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...former ordinary and non-union seaman of the City of Rayville, along with being a longtime TIME reader ... I was slightly disappointed over the fact that you people didn't make more of it than what you did [TIME, Nov. 18], Aside from the fact that the City of Rayville was my home for over a year and a half, I still think that she earned more descriptive notoriety than what you allowed since she is the first ship under an American flag to be sunk, in this...

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

...thoroughly revised Law School Year Book will make it appearance next Thursday. Editor-in-chief Robert S. Ratner 3L and Chairman of the Year book Committee Delmar W. Hollman 3L have prepared a volume with a revamped format and several new and enlivening features and have dedicated it to Oliver Wendell Holmes, on time Chief Justice of the Supreme Court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reorganized Law School Yearbook, Dedicated To Oliver Wendell Holmes, Appears Thursday | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...other hand, we dare to believe that our historical disciplines give to our men a perspective which American Protestantism too often lacks, and that, because of their habits of mind, they make a needed contribution to their several denominations. An English scholar has said that modern Protestantism has developed a 'theology of accommodation,' that is, it lives by a nicely calculated adjustment to the dominant interests of the common mind. Plainly, in so far as our American churches share the immediate interests and speak the vernacular of their world, they tend to lose the dispassionateness which pure religion ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPERRY DECLARES HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE RELIGION'S NEED | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

...Stuff Smith band passed out (with the exception of drummer Cozy Cole, who just kept the beat going for a good half-hour and knocked everybody out, including himself). However, it seems to me that House dances could be a lot more fun for everybody of the committees would make use of the policy of having Harvard bands, just as much as possible. By this I don't mean excluding name bands--the more we have of them the better, as shown last night by Vaughn Monroe. My point is this: if a house has a choice between Stan Brown...

Author: By Charles Miller, | Title: SWING | 12/14/1940 | See Source »

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