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Word: boxful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last marriage, in 1945, to a balding, amiable theatrical producer named W. Horace Schmidlapp, had long since disintegrated. So had her career. She was still working in B pictures, but she had lost her appeal at the box office. Her health was not good-she suffered from amoebic dysentery contracted overseas. There were rumors that she was broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Casually in Hollywood | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...coal mine-the only one operating in all Malaya. Shooting up a school bus and murdering a foreman and four workers, 37 of the bandits, including a teen-age girl, swept down on the railway station and held up an incoming train. The rebel leader emptied the railroad cash box, snapped: "We only want European property. We are going to kill every white man in Malaya." As the rebels left, the girl guerrilla took the station first-aid hamper with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYA: Majority of Guns | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

They left the Academy, set up housekeeping in an abandoned box car on the south coast of England, rehearsed 14 to 16 hours a day. They found their vows hard to keep: to eat, all four played for a while in the orchestra of a Bea Lillie revue; and once for eight weeks two of them fiddled for the sound tracks of the first English talkies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Quartet in Residence | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...white elephant. When a fire gutted it shortly afterward, his prospects looked even worse. But four years ago this month Hover started up again: the place has been jumpy ever since. It didn't seem to matter what happened to Hollywood-congressional investigations, hirings & firings, falling box office-so long as people could hash it over at Giro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Herman's Place | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

...Black. Howard Robard Hughes Jr., an only child, was born in Houston on Christmas Eve, 1905. At the age of three he showed his interest in gadgets by taking pictures with a box camera. Later he showed his inordinate persistence by practicing on the saxophone at all hours of the day & night, until he had mastered it. Young Howard and his playmate, Dudley Sharp (son of Hughes Sr.'s partner), built a wireless set, mostly out of old doorbell parts and other junk. When Howard asked for a motorcycle and was refused, he made a motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Mechanical Man | 7/19/1948 | See Source »

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