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Foxy Mr. Farley. They could point to sly, cunning Jim Farley, the political prophet, who carefully, genially went about New York State encouraging Republicans to run Tom Dewey. The very ice water in Jim Farley's veins warmed up at the thought of Dewey, who has no appeal to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People's Choice | 6/29/1942 | See Source »

Canny Showman Cohan knew what he was doing when he insisted that Irish Jimmy Cagney was the one cinemactor who could play him. Smart, alert, hardheaded, Cagney is as typically American as Cohan himself. Like Cohan, he has a transparent personal honesty, a basic audience appeal. Like Cohan, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 22, 1942 | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

The word vitamins these days is in everybody's mouth, but not the vitamins themselves. U.S. workmen, as a class, do not get enough. The first hardheaded, scientific program for giving U.S. workers enough vitamins appeared in a little booklet published by the National Research Council last fortnight ( The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitamins in the Vittles | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

One way or another, U.S. private preparatory schools last week were all doing their patriotic duty and getting themselves shipshape for war. So far they had weathered the storm well; only one or two weak sisters had foundered; enrollments and support were still high. But their hardheaded headmasters were caulking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good for the Soul | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

The Countess checked in at the Athene Palace the day Paris fell. She found the hotel swarming with "spies of every Intelligence Service in the world; the diplomats and military attaches of great and little powers; British and French oil men on their way out, and German and Italian oil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grand Hotel | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

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