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...Lean Years. In Fort Worth, Café Worker H. A. Bristow, 72, got a divorce and a $1,000 community-property settlement after he told the judge that his 79-year-old wife took his paycheck every week, gave him only $1.50 for bus tokens, retrieved the tokens and doled them out to him two a day, forced him to buy coffee from coins he found while sweeping the café, whacked him on the shins with a broom when he tried to see his children by a previous marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 28, 1956 | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

DUDLEY A. BRISTOW Willowdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...GROOM Bristow, Okla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 6, 1945 | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...jail in Los Angeles last week moped lean-jawed 19-year-old Private Conway J. Bristow, sentenced by a court martial to six days for being absent without leave from drills of his National Guard outfit. Two years under the draft age set by the Burke-Wadsworth Conscription Bill, Private Bristow was ready to get back in uniform, wait the Government's call of the Guard to active emergency service. Said AWOLer Bristow of the most common of fense committed by soldiers: "I hope the sentence won't reflect on my patriotism. If I had not been patriotic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Defense: AWOL | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted honor of Star Farmer, which carries a $500 prize. "I sure would like to win that," said Hunter, who did not think he would because last year's Star Farmer, Robert Lee Bristow, now assistant manager of a farmer's cooperative, hailed from a nearby Virginia county. Ignoring that circumstance, the judges decided on Hunter Roy in record time. After figuring that the $500 would finish the payments on his tractor, Star Farmer Greenlaw hurried back to work. His proud mother fretted: "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: G. Washington's Successor | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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