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The original idea was that of an imaginative press syndicate head, David Yaffa, who sold it to Australia's liveliest publisher, youthful (34), two-fisted Frank Packer. Gold-mining tycoon Frank Packer is co-owner of Australia's Consolidated Press, Ltd. as well as publisher of Australia'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Telephone Subscription | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Tellers at the Cambridge Trust are waiting, in two-fisted silence, for the lads of '45 who have an ingeniously idealistic conception of the banking business and will insist that an overdrawn account is not really overdrawn, but just temporarily embarrassed.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Considered Putty In Hands of Strange Fate | 9/20/1941 | See Source »

First two-fisted assault on Hague's domination of the State government, the bill waived payment by railroads of $17,000,000 in interest and penalties on tax bills, settled a much-argued suit by accepting $34,000.000 in installments. Worse still, the bill poked at the shaky financial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Lightning by Edison | 8/4/1941 | See Source »

Was the U.S. already in a shooting war with Germany, or not? In some alarm, the Senate's Naval Affairs Committee sent for Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, to tell them true. Rosy-jowled, freckle-fisted Colonel Knox, who likes to think of himself as a bluff character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Most Reassuring | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Two-handed tennists are no longer a novelty to U.S. galleries. Australian Davis Cuppers Vivian McGrath and John Bromwich both held their racquets like baseball bats. McGrath used a two-handed grip for his backhand. Bromwich served with his right hand, switched to his left for shots on that side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two-fisted South American | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

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