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...vaudeville flop with the effigy of an eight-year-old. But ten months ago, asked to perform on an NBC show without either McCarthy or Snerd, he folded his handkerchief over his fingers, threw his falsetto voice, and one Ophelia began to talk. "All of a sudden," recalls Bergen, "it dawned on me that women can get into many more situations than men, particularly a bachelor maid." Bergen has kept Ophelia in his act, as a sort of ectoplasmic voice. A while back he asked several Hollywood animated cartoonists to draw what flashed into their minds when they heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Judy for Punch | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Quick to throw their hats in the air were the members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee who had blocked Patton's promotion since last October. In the sudden new acclaim for Tanker Patton, Albert ("Happy") Chandler rose hurriedly and intoned: "At this hour he [Patton] is perhaps the greatest tank soldier in the world ... I have changed my mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Patton Regilded | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

First he issued a warning: the U.S. must avoid a sudden rise of prices such as occurred in the spring of 1919 after price controls were lifted but before enough goods had been produced to satisfy public demand. He promised therefore that after Germany's fall, when reconversion commences, OPA will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: Peace Terms | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Twilight Rumors. From the cavernous stage of Hitler's Europe, from behind the censor's hastily lowered asbestos curtain, came a confused welter of noises: hoarse shouts, the sound of running footsteps, the sudden stutter of machine guns. It was like the opening scene of a tragic and savage Twilight of the Gods. Rumor cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Crack of Doom | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...Indian Heart. Her only rival as an imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged his mighty expedition to the famed Marabar Caves he asked: "By the way, what is in these caves, brother? Why are we going to see them?"), Dr. Aziz tells U.S. readers more about the secret places of the Indian heart than any living Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Only One of Its Kind | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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