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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood Manufacturer Ralph Gordon Fear, 55, has interesting theories about time and reincarnation. In 1939 he explained it to: 1) his wife, 2) his secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After 2,304 Years | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Last week wife No. 2, ex-secretary Arline Peak Fear, also applied for divorce, tried to explain it all to Judge Henry M. Willis. Said she: Ralph Gordon Fear married his first wife only 800 years ago. But when he was a Roman warrior (2,300 years ago, to be exact) he had married an earlier incarnation of Arline Peak Fear. Result: wife No. 1 recognized wife No. 2's seniority, quietly got her divorce and $2,000,000, Describing the first meeting of Mr. Fear and the two Mrs. Fears, Arline Fear testified: "Out at the desert cottage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: After 2,304 Years | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

Seaman Allen L. Gordon went on the operating table in a South Pacific base hospital with one extra worry: he knew he might blow up. While on duty aboard a battleship he had been struck by a 20-mm. anti-aircraft shell which slashed into his belly, lodged in his left hip, freakishly did not explode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Delicate Operation | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...business manager is Gordon Marks, and he will be assisted by O. K. Bovard, J. P. Schaeffer, and F. H. Corrigan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD SCUTTLEBUTT | 9/14/1943 | See Source »

...unions, demanded that Mackenzie King's Labor Minister, Humphrey Mitchell, be fired at once. The convention cheered Ernest Ingles, delegate from Vancouver, as he charged that both the Wartime Prices and Trade Board and Canada's conscription system were "anti-labor." Delegate Ingles called W.P.T.B. Chairman Donald Gordon "the strongest Nazi element in this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Crisis on the Home Front | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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