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...hobnob with the fight mob. But Beau Jack was no palooka. Sticking to his battle-royal style, he licked 40 of his 45 opponents. And with Wergeles' incessant trumpeting about his Stork Club backers, Beau Jack became famed as the Stork Club champ. He made so much dough that Manager Wergeles recently repaid the syndicate every dollar they invested. Even the Beau has $10,000 in a trust fund...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stork Club Champ | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

...black in color, opaque, weighs about one-fifteenth as much as ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial use as a replacement for the cork linings of refrigerators. Today the industrial use of glass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Glass Goes to War | 10/26/1942 | See Source »

...held out a little of the dough he had collected on jewelry, and he was arrested for larceny. That was the kind of break Eli got. Eli dropped the jewelry business - he had been let off with a suspended sentence - and tried night club singing. His wife took their kid and left him. Then he met Madeline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Little Guy's Lady | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

...Wodehousian for the long green, mazuma, dough, cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Jeeves Grieves | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...children of Brazil's Petropolis, in celebration of President Getulio Vargas' 59th birthday: a cake, ten feet high, 26 feet in diameter, supporting a sugar-and-dough bust of the President. Among the ingredients: 1.200 dozen eggs, 25 bags of flour, 25 bags of sugar, 12 Ib. of butter, 52 quarts of milk, eleven quarts of currant syrup, five bottles of rum, 7 Ib. of sugar plums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

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