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...Beacon Hill hideaway is popularly supposed to be a scene of secret orgies between Bill Cunningham and a mythical secretary named Ima Smack that Bill once invented to explain his delay in answering letters. One day a Boston department-store executive gave Bill a life-size wax model of Miss Smack. Bill stretched her out among the littered papers on his couch, with her skirts up and a champagne glass in her hand, horrified an old gentleman who came to see him. Bill tried to explain that Miss Smack was a model, but the old gentleman went away muttering: "Your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ill-tempered Clavichord | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Senate's Great Inconsistent strolled daily from his ground-floor office in the Senate Office Building to his bare workroom hideaway in the Capitol, his shadow falling black on the worn paving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...vital, life-&-death issue: peace or war. To the great oratorical fugue about to start in the Capitol, never had there been a more unanimously attentive audience. The man who will play the counterpoint in that fugue, his eyebrows now white with time, sat brooding in his hideaway, now and then napping on a creaking old black-leather couch. Borah was ready for the fight of his life. The odds were against him but no man could yet say that he had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Great Fugue | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Fortnight ago Mr. Dewey was sued by a housewife, who averred that her home at White Plains, which Mr. Dewey rented as a hideaway for witnesses in his case against Tammany Boss Jimmy Hines, suffered $11,368.10 worth of defamation and physical damage when witnesses lived there and one of them killed himself. She complained that Mr. Dewey's agents deceived her into believing the lessees were a private family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Leopard Hunt | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

Last week a diplomatic drama as strange as a Wagnerian opera unrolled in the Bavarian Alps. The setting was Wagnerian-Führer Adolf Hitler's Berghof at Berchtesgaden, a mountain hideaway 15 miles from music-haunted Salzburg, 600 miles from Danzig, 1,300 miles from Moscow, and 3,000 feet above sea level. Facing the cloud-capped mountains the brown and white Berghof itself-huge echoing rooms, wide halls, bedrooms for 40 guests, guards' turrets, flower gardens, machine-gun nests-seemed as unreal as the home of the Troll kings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Weird War | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

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