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Radiomen and Government men last week came out of their huddle with what looked at last like real team play. After a vigorous but wobbly kickoff on the all-network Saturday evening This Is War! program (TIME, Feb. 23), followed by a fumble on the second try, last week'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Team Play | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

In the fast-moving aviation business, Breech is a sprinter. Son of an Ozark blacksmith, he took up accounting, in 1921 won a gold medal for top grades in Illinois State CPA exams. Breech's first real job was auditor for Chicago's Fairbanks, Morse & Co. Six years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Breech's Birthday | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Lieut. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. got orders from the Navy to have a haircut. The Navy dislikes long hairdos, prefers a trim a hair's breadth from a crew cut.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Slaps | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

The Corsican Brothers (Small; United Artists) are (both of them) Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who has yet to make up his mind who he is: his father, or Ronald Colman. They are also the offspring of Alexandre Dumas. Their eventual defeat of Baron Colonna (Akim Tamiroff), who slew their parents, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

Obviously, this kind of unfairness cannot go on forever. Lucien dies in the tenth reel, after the reunited brothers have toppled Colonna. The remaining half of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. lives on to win the girl and mouth such Shakespeareanisms as: "With love's light wings do I o'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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