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Later that evening, which was bonny, clear-skied, and warm enough to discard topcoats, Hyde Park was lively with strollers and the Serpentine with boats, and a vendor at Marble Arch was briskly selling red rubber balls painted with the faces of Hitler and Mussolini. In Leicester Square crowds jammed the first anniversary showing of Gone With the Wind and the first week of Shaw's Major Barbara. On the radio, Sir Adrian Boult was conducting a memorial concert to Sir Hamilton Harty. Two hundred Harrod's employes carried home gas masks, after a gas test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: War's Worst Raid | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

Interviewed yesterday afternoon in his luxuriously appointed quarters in the H.A.A., wild told the story of how he decided to discard his exciting existence on the News for the comparatively quiet occupation of handling releases for Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORMER CRIME REPORTER, PAL OF GANGSTERS, IN HAA OFFICE | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

With sincerest appreciation for a start to discard the covering of deception which has increasingly prevailed upon the real facts, and a wish for more just triumphs of this kind. Robert E. Lincoln...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/29/1941 | See Source »

...them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers might have to discard them as obsolescent. To make his statement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Too Early for Television? | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

...golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional blazing logs, I picked up my hand. After the discard, I held 5D, S, C and Jack H. Tensely, I said: "Careful, now. If you cut me the 5 of hearts, I'll have the 29 hand." He cut; I turned the card; it was the 5 of hearts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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