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...week after once earning $2,000 is to lose izzat. Film folk of superior izzat, putting in a phone call to an inferior, wait studiously until the inferior is on the wire before deigning to pick up the telephone receiver. Peter the Hermit, who struts along Hollywood Boulevard in his bare feet, is short on cash but long on izzat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinenym | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...racial good will. He advised Joe to treat his opponents with unusual deference, inside the ring and out. He forbade him to have his picture taken with any white woman, or ever to enter a cabaret alone. When Joe was caught speeding at 90 m.p.h. along a Chicago boulevard, Roxborough took away his driving license, has never since permitted him to drive a car (one of Joe's brothers has since been his chauffeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Moses | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...Sixth Avenue Association's plan calls for redesigning the Avenue's 27 midtown blocks. Between two focuses-a gigantic garment center and a music center which would eventually replace Carnegie Hall-it would become the "Avenue of the Americas," a broad, tree-lined boulevard hedged with buildings housing the Manhattan interests of all the Latin-American republics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blueprint for an Avenue | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Night at Earl Carroll's (Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 16, 1940 | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

...shall defend it to the end." British guns spoke. Their conversation touched the Governor General's house, the town radio station (so that for several hours Vichy heard nothing), the French and native cities, Wakam airport, the railroad line to St. Louis, the city's main boulevard. Three pro-Vichy submarines put out, two of which were sunk. Altogether there were about 600 casualties, half civilian, half military. By way of reprisal, French planes armed for patrol duty in Algeria bombed Gibraltar two days. And Dakar did not surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHERN THEATRE: Fiasco at Dakar | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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