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Accompanied by one of his two svelte secretaries, who take down gags he thinks up at night, d.t.-totaling W. C. Fields ambled into Los Angeles court, tried to get a $20,000 refund on his 1937 Federal income tax. He found that the Government wanted $20,000 more. Badgered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 3, 1941 | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

There were other signs that the defense current ran strong and deep. At the slightest public hint that something had been bungled in Defense, letters of protest harried the responsible agencies in Washington. The War Department published a long list of U. S. companies. All were out for something (tax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE WEEK: The Current | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

Youngish, thick-featured Dr. Shorell has performed two of Edna Wallace Hopper's three face-liftings, has operated on a score of movie faces. His is one of the most lucrative branches of surgery. He makes one incision, in front of the ear, one under and behind it, sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Face Lifted? | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

Last fall Superintendent Huff dedicated his new school, complete with WPA oil paintings. New Mexico's Governor John E. Miles exclaimed: "I sometimes think this man Raymond Huff uses elastic dollars, he makes them go so far." This summer Superintendent Huff began to build a stadium, which, when it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Primitive Arts, 1940 A.D. | 8/12/1940 | See Source »

The basis of the elastic defense-in-depth which was France's last hope last week was laid down in de Gaulle's Vers I'Annee de Metier.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

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