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Geraldine Farrar, now 61 and long the buxom mistress of a rural estate in Connecticut, appeared in her Red Cross uniform at a war bond rally in Ridgefield, auctioned off a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entertainers | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...Paul Hoffman? Paul Gray Hoffman is a mild-mannered, mildly good-looking, nonsmoking, teetotaling gentleman of medium size, whose most distinctive feature is a pair of startlingly blue eyes. He is a friendly family man with a bustling, buxom wife, five sons-all in uniform today-and two daughters. He works in South Bend, Ind. and spends his meager spare time at home-in the winter in a "mildly exclusive" part of South Bend; in the summer at unpretentious Lakeside, on Lake Michigan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POSTWAR: Limited Objective | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...Famed for his murder in 1872 of his friend Jim Fisk (Jay Gould's partner) after quarrels over bad business and bad, buxom Actress Josie Mansfield. Killer Stokes got off with four years in Sing Sing, emerged to buy control of the Hoffman House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tales of the Hoffman House | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

...living room last week, grey-haired Pa John Harrington, 68, worked long hours at a grinder, grinned when the sparks flew, sometimes muttered: "I have more fun than a kid in this place." Buxom Ma Harrington, 58, wearing a house dress tucked into overalls, operated a lathe. Twins Richard and Russell, 34, wangled new orders, worked at machines, swept out the place at night, often were on the job 16 hours out of 24. Mrs. Richard kept books. Mrs. Russell did all the cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pa, Ma & the Twins | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

...Europe's most war-torn centuries (the 17th), these 70 old Dutch masterpieces are as placid as a cow pasture. They depict not only the quiet surroundings but the quiet minds of sober, thrifty Dutch burghers: well-fed merchants of Amsterdam and Haarlem and their complacent, buxom wives, peaceful seascapes, fertile landscapes, plethoric fishmarkets, tables loaded with fruit and flowers. What makes them great art is no transcendental or heroic message but the unequaled quality of their honest, painstaking craftsmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Dutch Treat | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

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