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...mysterious regular, Little Caesar, has sent as many as 20 telegrams in one morning, usually hailing Stan with "Hiya Skipper" and requesting selections to be dedicated to "Gloria, who is as sweet as the days are long." Stan reads them all, palavers to the regulars like an old school chum, has time for about 100 recordings a program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Milkman Stan | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...radical. Sandy-haired, grey-eyed, idealistic Glenn Spotswood was brought up to be a Christian Gentleman. But his father was liberal enough to get fired from Columbia University for opposing U. S. entry into the War. Other radicalizers in Glenn's young manhood were a good-humored rebel chum; a freshman roommate hipped on the Law of Moses and Henry George's single tax; a picturesque Wobbly pal in the Northwest wheatfields one summer; a sociology instructor who took him along when he moved to a professorship at Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heresy | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...dock was an amiable picket. "Service certainly is faster than it used to be, ain't it, chum?" asked the picket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALIFORNIAN'S TRUNK NONE TOO SWIFT IN PASSAGE HOME | 9/1/1938 | See Source »

Eleanor meets Tarzan and his chimpanzee chum when they rescue her from a tumble into a morass. When he places an amoral hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 17, 1938 | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...clock: Here's the peak crowd--four hundred through in just over an hour. Watch these solicitors along the back of Memorial and on the sidewalk. The way they yell and wave paper at everyone coming out they look just like--"Pardon me, chum; but is this place being picketed?" Well, you might think so; but John L. Lewis' son enrolled at Princeton today instead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pandemonium Reigns in Memorial as 1941 Runs Gauntlet of Registration | 9/25/1937 | See Source »

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