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"I've tried all my life to drink," Helen Hayes told a Manhattan interviewer, "and I don't like it. I consort with nobody but drinkers. I married a good two-fisted drinker. Once I felt I had found something I could drink-vodka. But it was the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Fortunes of War | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

While he sought to clarify at a press conference the WMC's recent far-reaching edicts on the draft, the 48 hour week and other manpower matters, Congress moved unmistakably closer to a two-fisted clash with the commission on the whole problem.

Author: By United Press, | Title: Over the Wire | 2/16/1943 | See Source »

In Argentina the United Nations lost a friend this week and "prudently neutral" President Ramón S. Castillo an enemy. Death took big, two-fisted General Agustín Justo, 66, ex-President and outstanding candidate for reelection in November. The cause: cerebral hemorrhage.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Death and Neutrality | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

"Liberal education" is a fighting phrase nowadays. "In the current discussions between the Armed Forces and the educators on the conversion of colleges to the war effort we have a vague picture of a group of horn-rimmed but humane deans in a gallant losing struggle against a tight-fisted...

Author: By A. Y., | Title: BRASS TACKS | 1/13/1943 | See Source »

> Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Dec. 28, 1942 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

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