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...case of balding, banjo-eyed Charles Boyer, the answer is love. Love laughs at locked frontiers, drops M. Boyer, 42, into the U.S. melting pot. As Georges Iscovescu, renowned European gigolo and dancer, he is one of a hotelful of émigrés impatiently waiting to cross into the U.S. from a little Mexican border town. Impatient at the slow arrival of his quota number, he takes a tip from a former dancing partner (Paulette Goddard) who has married her way across the U.S.-Mexican border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...from pot, the Philippines Free Press, with circulation at 39,400, is one of the most successful, best-edited English-language papers in the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Island Editor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...comb them word by word. After a sojourn in London he was catching up on five months' back reading of his own paper, the weekly Philippines Free Press. Presently, reading one of his dispatches from London, he was engulfed by gloom because his paper had gone to pot-he had found a typographical error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Island Editor | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Discipline was rigorously enforced by use of the demerit system. Every ten demerits meant two afternoons on K.P., and K.P. meant dish washing, pot-scraping, sweeping, and even dusting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 76 SENIORS TASTE ARMY LIFE AT ETHAN ALLEN THIS SUMMER | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...incidents from Flaubert's story. They crawl with strange, imaginary, amoebic organisms and flower forms, emaciated, corpselike beings, fantastic planetary convulsions, disembodied bits of human anatomy. In one an enormous human head suspended in space gazes broodingly over a dreary seascape. Another shows a devil clawing at a pot of stewing human skulls. Redon fans, admiring the artist's meticulous drawing and the strange velvety sheen of his blacks, agreed last week that his nightmares had never been more vivid than these...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nightmares & Flowers | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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