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Agreeable Creatures. Sir Thomas lives in a baronial Manhattan duplex with Tudor interiors, leaves it occasionally for walks in nearby Central Park. On warm days he sometimes has a taxi follow him with his overcoat. He smokes continuously, preferring light Havana cigars. He refers to tea as "poison" and says of his preference: "I have to drink a certain amount of Scotch, very much against my will." When his chronic gout once got the better of him in Philadelphia, he had him self pushed on the stage in a wheelchair and conducted the performance while sitting. At one New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Enthusiastic Amateur | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...PLEASE! Well-behaved little sisters, Eileen, 3; Patricia, 4 months, and their mammie need furnished house, apartment, duplex, or will share home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unkindest Cut | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

Lena Horne and her four-year-old daughter by an early, unsuccessful marriage occupy a five-room duplex apartment in Hollywood across the street from Humphrey Bogart's. In Manhattan Lena lives obscurely in a small room in Harlem's Theresa Hotel. Every day her aging mother makes the trip from Brooklyn to the Theresa to see that Lena eats properly and wears her rubbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chocolate Cream Chanteuse | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

...empty engine mounts of the world's largest flying boat still gaped last week like empty tooth sockets. But in the well-guarded assembly building at the great Martin aircraft plant at Middle River, Md. the four 2,000-h.p. Wright Duplex Cyclones that will drive Glenn Martin's "No. 170" were on hand; so were the huge props. It would not be long before Martin's 170, called by the Navy XPB2M-I,- would be ready for her first trip aloft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Second Flying Elephant | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

These dispositions, which could be used two ways, were supplemented by duplex tactics. To the minimal detail, the German troops knew what to do on the offense, what on defense; for in most cases the tasks were identical, though differently applied, the equipment identical, though differently used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War, SOUTHERN THEATER: Three Days, Two Ways | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

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