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Discovered at the Home for Incurables in The Bronx was one of the great Victorian illustrators, 85-year-old Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: King Counseled | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Ravishing beauties in Cairo's biggest air-conditioned department store stand behind counters loaded with perfumes, nylon stockings, leather goods, flashlights, cameras. Americans and Britons flock to Saint James's restaurant for thick, juicy steaks. Menus in all the best restaurants list hors d'oeuvres, fish, entrees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: WHILE CAIRO FIDDLED | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

At the dinner, grey-clad and booted, Dictator Stalin regaled his guests with a seven-hour, ten-course meal including cold and hot zakuska (hors d'oeuvres), bowls of caviar, flagons of cognac and vodka, which many of the Russians chose to lace with red pepper. Thirty-one bottoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Nice Old Gentleman | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

The Bride Came C. O. D. (Warner) is a hot-weather hors d'oeuvre. It offers the curious spectacle of the screen's most talented tough guy (James Cagney) roughhousing one of the screen's best dramatic actresses (Bette Davis) through ten reels of slapsticky summertime comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 28, 1941 | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

These baby officers are tough babies. They are trim as well-kept guns, big fellows, by Chinese standards, hearty and jolly in rest and brutally energetic in action. They lead in person. With their divisions they clamber up mountainsides which would put most corpulent U.S. colonels hors de combat. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: FAR EASTERN THEATER: The Army Nobody Knows | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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