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...Busman's Holiday. In St. Louis, Weather Bureau men planned a picnic, let their wives pick the day, got rained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 12, 1946 | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Four years ago, ship-bored sailors on a U.S. transport near Samoa ran across a ravaged English thriller. Its somewhat peremptory title: Kiss the Blood Off My Hands. The high-strung, blood-&-guts story furnished so fine a busman's holiday that they dismembered it, passed it around chapter by chapter. To their horror, they found that the last two chapters had gone overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Missing Chapter | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

Lady Astor finally got back home to Old Virginia, and from there was heading for Florida (not to see Winston Churchill-"That would be a busman's holiday"*). She was taking Lord Astor to a warm climate "to restore him." Explained the 66-year-old Viscountess: "Everybody wants to be a young widow-they go like hot cakes, but nobody wants to be an old widow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...Busman's Holiday. In Moscow, Idaho, Mayor W. L. Anderson suspended two policemen for letting delegates to a police officers' convention speed through town at 2:30 a.m. with sirens shrieking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 27, 1945 | 8/27/1945 | See Source »

...SKELETONS RATTLE- Frederick C. Davis- Crime Club ($2). The arrival of newlywed Criminologist Hatch and his bride in a sleepy Pennsylvania village precipitates a hecatomb. Four murders and two natural deaths, all linked in the same grisly puzzle, make it a real busman's honeymoon. A shrewdly plotted and super-shivery affair, with logical detecting and a leaven of dese-dose-&-dem humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in February, Mar. 6, 1944 | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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