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Driving through Boston, Mass., one James J. Behr listened attentively to a broadcast of Information Please, obediently shut his eyes when he heard Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman ask the guest experts to shut their eyes and tell the color of their ties. The experts knew and the sponsors paid nothing. Mr. Behr, who also knew, hit the car ahead of him, paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Information | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Grizzly Dr. Harry Clifton ("Curly") Byrd, publicity-wise president of the University of Maryland, failed to welcome students to the Maryland-Virginia Traffic Policemen's Accident Prevention School. Reason: his carwas disabled in an accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Clifton E. Helman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 191 Letter Winners on Spring Minor Sports Teams Are Announced | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

Died. Jacob Grant Hollenbeck, 72, assistant passenger traffic manager for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (he had retired 24 hrs. before his death) and father of frail, graceful Musicomedy Hoofer Clifton Webb; in St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...hunting, Texas' Representative Martin ("Un-American") Dies never put on the stand a real, live, current Communist. This was perhaps intentional. Virginia's Representative Clifton ("Economy") Woodrum last week produced a Communist, and with shrewd design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Indelible Red | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

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