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Tommy Manville said he was about to take his sixth wife. This was not the sixth wife he said he was going to take in February. One Manhattan newspaper said that he said the wedding would be on April 9, his birthday. Another paper said that he said April Fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Mister V (Small; United Artists) will not fool even the dunces in the back row. Its producer-director-star, airy Leslie Howard, played the same leading role seven years ago in The Scarlet Pimpernel. Then he was an 18th-Century English lord, airily rescuing French aristocrats imperiled by the Revolution; now he is a peripatetic British archeologist, airily saving scientists from Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Colgate's gruff old President Cutten sized up President-elect Case last week and decided he would do. Barked Cutten, bringing a characteristic lopsided grin to Ev Case's freckled face: "No one ever heard of a bald-headed fool." Like all past Colgate presidents, Case is a Baptist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Case to Colgate | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

...find a man on whose mind was imprinted, as if on animated microfilm, all the books by and about Clausewitz, Napoleon, Lee, Caesar, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Sun Tzu of China and the rest of the great military theorists and practitioners, then the chief of state would be a fool to buy the books. Joseph Stalin has such a man in Boris Shaposhnikov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: What Will Spring Bring? | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

...counsel of crabbed, pro-Axis Sheik Mustafa El-Maraghi, rector of the ancient Moslem University of El-Azhar. "You will not rest until you have shot a lion," said El-Maraghi. Thereupon the king went to the zoo and shot two lions in their cage. The nightmares continued. "Young fool," said El-Maraghi, "I spoke in symbols-the lion that has been chasing you is Britain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Farouk the Foolish | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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