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...headliners, the producers had chosen two ingenues: U. S. Singles Champion Alice Marble (straight from a week's appearance in vaudeville at Broadway's Loew's State Theatre) and Britain's No. 1 woman player, Mary Hardwick, stranded in the U. S. since the outbreak of World War II. But the performer most of the crowd had come to see was Bill Tilden, the Old Master, in his age-defying...
...suffering that John Brown's fixation inflicted upon innocent people, even before the Civil War started. The raids in Bloody Kansas are as terrifying as the fire raid on London, and the clash between the two ideologies as apparently irreconcilable as their modern counterpart. By ending just before the outbreak of the Civil War, the picture underlines skillfully the deep-seated hatred and fear that caused it. And the comparison with the terrible present further points up an already gripping film...
...that remained of Hog Island shipyard last week were a few tag ends of foundations rotting in the water. But scores of squat, ugly Hog Islanders still plowed the seas, slow but effective Marthas of a U. S. merchant marine now seven times larger than at the outbreak of World War I. And last week Franklin Roosevelt gave the signal to build the Hog Islands of World War II-new yards to assemble 200 identical 7,500-ton, prefabricated cargo ships, to cost from...
...outbreak of the war in Europe in September of 1939 there was active discussion in the Medical School of the implications of the new situation for the Medical School," Dean Burwell said. "AT the meeting of the Administrative Board in September of 1939 the policy of the School was outlined tentatively as follows: to play an effective part in the defense program of the United States and to maintain insofar as possible the standards of teaching and research in the Medical School...
Since August prices have not risen sharply and spectacularly-as at World War II's outbreak-but steadily and unobtrusively...