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But it also has several cards up its sleeve. For one thing, Murray, with his smooth delivery and flawless timing, squires each wrinkled act around as though it were a dewy-eyed debutante. For another thing, Blackouts never stays put. Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: California Gold Mine | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perfectly Beastly Snobs | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

By now there was probably not an old-line officer in the German Army who would feel anything but profound relief if the earth were to open up and swallow Hitler and his entire Nazi heirarchy. The demigods of German militarism, Prussian elite officers, hunting, dueling squires of the broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: Question Mark | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle, 6 ft. 4 in. tall and 53 years old, is very French indeed: not the explosive, whiskery, gesturing type of Frenchman, but the sober, hard-working kind to whom God is one of many inescapable facts. In the dreary industrial city of Lille...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Symbol | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

For his original Southern type, "the core about which most Southerners of whatever degree were likely to be built," Cash selects not the aristocrat but the "backcountry pioneer farmer," the descendant not of English squires but of "half-wild Scotch and Irish clansmen." This countryman's outstanding trait was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Psychoanalysis of a Nation | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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