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...troops, who had been fighting day & night for two weeks straight, tumbled into ditches as the Nazi strafers made at them, then scrambled up to pot the advancing tanks or bayonet their way out of traps. As the forces fell back toward wedge-shaped Attica, it became evident that the bulk of them could get clear only if the rearguard made a magnificent stand. Sir Thomas decided that historic Thermopylae pass was the spot. He ordered the chosen few: "Every man must now do his job with strong determination. Select positions with care, and so prevent the enemy from coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BALKAN THEATER: Too Many of Them | 5/5/1941 | See Source »

Jimmy Roosevelt threw Paulette Goddard and the entire Heidt Brigade into the pot with Jimmy Stewart, and the product is not gold but unpalatable musical hash. Stewart remains the easy-going, honest boy from the sticks who migrates to the big city. The heavy is his grump uncle who wants Irish Mary Gordon's property. Although he has to plaster his uncle with a rotten tomato and give away a thousand dollars over the radio to do it, Stewart finally effects the obvious Anschluss. Ma gets the house and Jimmy gets Paulette...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/3/1941 | See Source »

...dishmen and a pantry worker from the Freshman Union; a cook, salad man, and a busboy from Winthrop; an busboy and a truckman from Leverett; one glass-woman from Lowell; a busboy, a kitchen man, potwasher, dish man and spare man from the Main Kitchen on Boylston Street; a pot washer from the Medical School; and a utility man from the Business School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dining Hall Workers Pay Union Dues or Go | 5/1/1941 | See Source »

...Pot o' Gold (United Artists). When Sam Goldwyn hired the President's oldest son two years ago, Hollywood sat back with a small smile and twiddled its thumbs. Next thing Hollywood knew, Jimmy was on his own. With a franchise to distribute pictures through United Artists, he had formed his own company, Globe Productions, Inc. Jimmy's first regular film release was Pastor Hall, an English-made film of the trials of a Nazi-baited German cleric. His second was to be his own product, Pot o' Gold. Three weeks ago Captain James Roosevelt drew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...musicomedy right down the Hollywood groove, Pot o' Gold teams up America's favorite doughboy, James Stewart with prancing Paulette Goddard, Comic Charles Winninger, adds Horace Heidt's muscular orchestra for a bracer, bind them together with the radio program Pot o' Gold ($1,000 to the lucky person who answers the telephone when Bandmaster Heidt calls from the studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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