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Actually, handsome young David Astor will not take over until war's end. The Garvin-Astor split was not over him but over Winston Churchill, whom Garvin supports and the Astors don't like. Gar-vin's two "serious offenses" were outlined to him in a letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Garvin Gets Out | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

Engaged. June Preisser, 21, blonde, acrobatic film starlet (Babes in Arms, Strike Up the Band); and Gar Wood Jr., 23, redhaired, boat-racing son of famed Detroit Speedboatman Gar Wood; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Aram (rhymes with a bomb) Garoghlanian (pronounced "Gar, pause, oghlan, slight pause, ian") is the narrator, for William Saroyan, of 14 semi-autobiographical semi-stories of an Armenian childhood in Fresno, Calif. They are, in their modest way, the best writing William Saroyan has done. But like all Saroyan's work, they are likable or loathsome, depending on the reader's taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slack-Wire Miracles | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

...Gold Cup course last week. Among the experts, the favorites were Zalmon Simmons' My Sin, winner last year with an average speed of 66 m.p.h., and Herbert Mendelson's brand-new Notre Dame, successor to the original Notre Dame that won the 1937 race. Sentimentalists hoped that Gar Wood Jr., driving his little Tinker Toy (a converted 18-ft. runabout with which he was making his debut in big-time inboard racing), might follow in the wake of his famed father, four-time Gold Cup winner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hotsy Totsy | 8/26/1940 | See Source »

...GAR ROUTT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 19, 1940 | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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