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A corny, rowdy farce that seems afraid to tackle Broadway has broken all performance records in Chicago. Satisfying "every taste except good taste," Good Night Ladies (TIME, May 18, 1942) has run 72 weeks, nosed out Life with Father, grossed $1,000,000 and is still packing them in.
... * Last month Bank of America, long the No. 4 U.S. bank, nosed out New York's Guaranty Trust Co. for the No. 3 spot. Its total resources: $3,127,638,000, almost $1 billion more than a year ago. ...
> In San Francisco, a thousand miles away, a scandal-sniffing House subcommittee nosed into Kaiser's Richmond No. 3 yard and had its muckraking charges against Kaiser blown back in its face.
Thus last week wrote lively, beak-nosed Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the catalogue of a highly unusual art show. The first big collection of eyewitness war paintings ever shown while the war was still being fought hung in Washington's...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes.