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...were picked by the Southern California Dental Association as the swellest in Hollywood. . . Warner Bros. insured the beard of Monty Woolley (The Man Who Came to Dinner) for $10,000. The insurance company's provisos : Woolley has to wear a fireproof silk beard snood, smoke through a noncombustible cigaret holder, refrain from smoking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Scene III: The two men face each other on deck. Franklin Roosevelt's cigaret is burning brightly at the end of his long holder. Winston Churchill's long black cigar, crooked between his fingers, has gone out. The two men shake hands gravely, then the President makes a crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, STRATEGY: President & Prime Minister | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

...farm belongs to the family of the ex-New York Stock Exchange president's brother's wife. ∙∙ Dizzy Dean began a new job as sports announcer for a St. Louis radio station. ∙∙ Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends, etc.) bobbed up in a cigaret ad, telling "How to Get Up Easily in the Morning." He advised naps, plenty of sleep, and getting up fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

There were about 600 Lights Out clubs in the U.S. when Mr. Cooper stopped writing the show to go to Hollywood to do picture scripts. A Kansas City, Mo. chapter whose meeting he attended had officers and by-laws and fined any member who spoke or lit a cigaret during broadcasts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Mouths South | 6/2/1941 | See Source »

...tenderly about his own children (see his Rainy Day} as any other man living. Nash does most of his writing, however, in the guise of a sensitive prune. He speaks for the cartoon 20th-century American male-the subway-ridden goofus whose personality is deeply engraved on his cigaret lighter, and whose most ambitious ethical concept is "if it's trite, it's right." Nash knows his American civilization, and he can write about it like an efficiency expert in baggy pants. His light verse is a remarkable rhetorical invention. Where McCord, a traditionalist, makes his words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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