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...doing this for? . . . He never kissed me like that. . . . Cliff! You stop that! (De Mille: 'Time.') . . . You come right on home. . . . And wipe off your mouth!" ∙ ∙ Errol Flynn whacked Columnist Jimmie Fidler in a nightclub, claimed Mrs. Fidler wounded him in the ear with her fork. The row was over Fidler's cracks about the movie industry, it Meanwhile attorneys for Flynn and Wife Lili Damita are arranging a property settlement, with a separation in the offing. ∙ ∙Bing Crosby practiced a week for a try at Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...tight squeeze-generous, square-shooting John Roxborough gave Julian Black, Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Black Moses | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

...round no more, but a flock o' fresh stock is in, 'rarin' to go and creatin' a pile o' fuss per usual. This hyar piece is aimed at the latter (that's a two-bit word.) Mebbe so some of us old nags can fork you young colts of '45 a little solid horse-sense afore you go throwin' shoes all over the range...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '45 Colts | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...face of the doubtless urban designer of the new Communist symbol should be as red as the revolution's flag. His five-tined fork is inescapably a manure fork; a hay fork has only three tines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

...Communist symbol of the party in New York City (TIME, Aug. 25) shows what is locally called a dung fork or manure fork rather than a "pitchfork" as TIME delicately calls it. Herewith a Sears, Roebuck clipping for authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1941 | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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